On 3/9/07, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 08, 2007 10:06 -0800, Avantika Mathur wrote: > > - Aneesh Veetil has been working on a migration tool from block based to > extents allocation. He is looking at two options. > > - Offline Migration: Modify e2fsprogs code to actually be able to create > extents. This involves a lot of duplication of ext4 code (btree). > e2fsprogs has code for interpreting extents, but code for creating them > would have to be duplicated. > > - Online Migration: Use existing filesystem code to convert to extents - > similar to online defragmentation. I would prefer to implement this using the same code as the online defrag. To be useful, the online defrag has to work with block-mapped files anyways.
Is there a tree (git or hg ) which i can use to get a working online defrag ? -aneesh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
