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?)
> 
> --D

Er, yes, that's simpler.  And a SIGINT handler just to keep things tidy?

+Reardon

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