From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: New e2fsprog doc on the ext4 wiki page. Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:30:27 +0530 Message-ID: <46A6302B.1020505@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20070724110741.65ade06e@rx8> <46A62672.70808@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070724113507.72ed9687@rx8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: "Jose R. Santos" Return-path: Received: from ausmtp04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.152]:53650 "EHLO ausmtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755268AbXGXRBt (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:01:49 -0400 Received: from sd0109e.au.ibm.com (d23rh905.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.225]) by ausmtp04.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6OHPAJe334688 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:25:10 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.237]) by sd0109e.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.4) with ESMTP id l6OH42cn211908 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:04:02 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l6OH0TkH014888 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:00:30 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20070724113507.72ed9687@rx8> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Jose R. Santos wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:48:58 +0530 > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote: > >> >> Jose R. Santos wrote: >>> Hi folks >>> >>> >>> >>> ext4migrate: >>> - Patches submited to the mailing list by Aneesh Kumar >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/1395 >>> >> >> I guess what we are looking at here is >> >> a) ext3 -> ext4 conversion would be done via option for defrag. This >> conversion is now done via a ioctl. This is the suggested method for >> defragmenting an ext3 inode (convert to ext4 and then defrag). >> >> b) small inode to large inode conversion is done via tune2fs -I < >> new_inode_size> I have patches for this ready. Will be sending them >> in a day or two. >> >> So the ext4migrate command may not be really needed. >> >> >> -aneesh > > I will remove this item then and add the tune2fs changes. > > Is the defrag code going to be part of e2fsprogs or is this going to be > a standalone app? > As per the last version posted http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2290 There is a e4defrag command. -aneesh