On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:42:02PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > Well, perhaps it time that someone rewrote the defragger to work with > 4k blocks, and so that it doens't leave your filesystem a smoking heap > of debris if your system crashes in the middle of the defrag > operation. :-) Is there a design for a coherent filesystem interface that would allow ext3 defragging, resizing, bad block handling, etc., to be done online, incrementally, and safely from userland? Regards, Bill Rugolsky