From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: possible different donor file naming in e4defrag Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:39:09 -0700 Message-ID: <20140815203909.GM2808@birch.djwong.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: TR Reardon Return-path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:21795 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751063AbaHOUjO (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:39:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 04:12:40PM -0400, TR Reardon wrote: > 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? How about we just reset the directory time? (Or does utime() not work?) --D > > +Reardon > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html