Re: possible different donor file naming in e4defrag

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 04:12:40PM -0400, TR Reardon wrote:
> Currently, e4defrag creates a donor file _in the same directory_ of
> the file being defrag'ed.
> 
> The problem with this is that the containing directory times are
> changed because of the transient presence of the donor file.  Any
> thoughts as to moving the donor to a better location, mount-root, or
> /lost+found?  Or, ugh, a configurable location, if non-privileged
> defrag is important?

How about we just reset the directory time?  (Or does utime() not work?)

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