> I approached the problem from several different angles. > >... > In order to make a defrag for EXT3 safe, you would need to do one of > two things: > > 1) Develop a Defrag API or some sort of File System Maintenance API > which included Defrag support and successfully integrate it into > the kernel. > - OR - > 2) Extend Mandatory Locking to every file the system opens and closes > and integrate such a patch into the kernel. > > Either task is uphill sledding. And a single defrag run to speedup the booting would soon be worthless, if the system configuration gets changed (at least after some "apt-get dist-upgrade"s :-). That could work for a "fire and forget" workstation - setup, defrag, move some files to front, work only ever as user without changing /bin, /etc, and so on ... So it won't be possible. I read that there was a patch for in-kernel-movement of blocks; what has happened to it? (Do we want reiserfs, xfs, whatever to have this advantage, and ext2/3 left behind?) I feel a strong urge to shoot the messenger or at least the message, but thank you for your answer :-) Regards, Phil _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
