Re: [RFC] Ext3 online defrag

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>>>>> Theodore Tso (TT) writes:

 TT> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:27:10PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
 >> Hello,
 >> 
 >> I've written a simple patch implementing ext3 ioctl for file
 >> relocation. Basically you call ioctl on a file, give it list of blocks
 >> and it relocates the file into given blocks (provided they are still
 >> free). The idea is to use it as a kernel part of ext3 online
 >> defragmenter (or generally disk access optimizer). 

isn't that a kernel responsbility to find/allocate target blocks?
wouldn't it better to specify desirable target group and minimal
acceptable chunk of free blocks?

thanks, Alex
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