From: TR Reardon Subject: possible different donor file naming in e4defrag Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:12:40 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" To: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from blu004-omc1s26.hotmail.com ([65.55.116.37]:54435 "EHLO BLU004-OMC1S26.hotmail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbaHOUNX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:13:23 -0400 Received: by mail-yk0-f172.google.com with SMTP id 10so2481630ykt.17 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Currently, e4defrag creates a donor file _in the same directory_ of the file being defrag'ed. The problem with this is that the containing directory times are changed because of the transient presence of the donor file. Any thoughts as to moving the donor to a better location, mount-root, or /lost+found? Or, ugh, a configurable location, if non-privileged defrag is important? +Reardon