On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 09:01 +0900, Akira Fujita wrote: > Hi all, > > I have updated ext4 online defrag to interchange > the data blocks of the target and temporary files > in an atomic manner. > We have no corruption in the target file anymore > if unexpected system down occurs while doing defrag. > Thanks for the update. > Next step: > Remove the limit of target file size (now 128MB) in -f mode. > * Past mail concerning -f mode. > http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=118239067704899&w=4 > The old version have many useful high level description, could you preserve that and add to the change logs in this updated series? > Dependency: > My patches depend on the multi-block allocation in ext4 patch queue. > mballoc patch already in maintain so this dependency could be removed. > Summary of patches: > * These patches are applied on the top of > ext4 git tree(linux-2.6.25-rc3-git4). > http://repo.or.cz/r/ext4-patch-queue.git > And attached files are the updated patches. > I assume the following three patches are diffs against current ext4 patch queue > [PATCH 1/3] > - Interchange the data blocks of the target and > temporary files in an atomic manner. > > [PATCH 2/3] > - Change the name of functions. > ext4_ext_xxx -> ext4_defrag_xxx > - Some cleanups. > > [PATCH 3/3] ext4 online defrag command > - Change the error handling for ext4_iget(). > - Usage is as follows: > o Put the multiple files closer together. > # e4defrag -r directory-name > o Defrag for free space fragmentation. > # e4defrag -f file-name > o Defrag for a single file. > # e4defrag file-name > o Defrag for all files on ext4. > # e4defrag device-name > > Review and comment are welcome. > Attempted to do so... The updated patch series could not compile one-by-one, could you rework the series so that in the future we could able to bi-search the ext4 patch queue? As a whole, I got compile warning when applied all the updated patches:( review comments against the 4 updated kernel patches to follow. Mingming -- 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
