On Jul 21, 2008 22:59 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:13:34PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > We wrote a tool for Lustre which reports the free space fragmentation in > > ext* filesystems. There was a request on linuxfs to get a copy of this > > patch, and I thought it would be potentially useful for others as well. > > The patch is against 1.40.11, but I don't think it would need to change > > much (if any) for 1.40.1 because it only uses public libext2fs interfaces. > > Thanks, I'll look at this. Speaking of which, a week or two ago I was > going through the clusterfs patches to see if there was anything I had > missed for 1.41.0 that should either go into 1.42 or 1.41.1, and I > noticed there were a number of extra tools, of which freefrag was but > one. > > Can I assume a signed-off by "Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx>" for > any of the Clusterfs/Sun e2fsprogs patches in the public patches > directory? Yes. > Are there any other user programs in particular that should be included? The other one that we've worked on is e2scan - it implements a fast scan of the inode table to find modified files for backup/rsync/etc. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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
