Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:13:20AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Ulf Zimmermann wrote: >>> Can anyone tell me if the zerofree option for ext3 has been back ported >>> to RedHat EL4 or EL5? >> there appears to be no backporting to do; it's a single .c file that >> makes simple use (I assume...) of libext2... >> >> But no, it's not in Fedora, EPEL, or RHEL. Builds fine on my rhel5 box. >> >> If you wanted to, you could be the maintainer for Fedora, and put it >> into EPEL, which would make it available for RHEL :) > > Or it would be roughly a 5 line change to e2image (3 for option > parsing, 1 for the usage line, and 1 to the if statement in > write_raw_image_file() :-) to add an option to extend the "raw dump" > functionality to also dump the data blocks of files, at which point it > would create a sparse file containing only the used blocks in the > filesystem for you, automatically. > > - Ted hey that sounds even better than a random collection of single-purpose utilities! ;) (But I suppose the original util had the other useful purpose of scrubbing free blocks even if you don't intend to compress the fs image...) -Eric _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
