>>>>> Theodore Tso (TT) writes: TT> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:27:10PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've written a simple patch implementing ext3 ioctl for file >> relocation. Basically you call ioctl on a file, give it list of blocks >> and it relocates the file into given blocks (provided they are still >> free). The idea is to use it as a kernel part of ext3 online >> defragmenter (or generally disk access optimizer). isn't that a kernel responsbility to find/allocate target blocks? wouldn't it better to specify desirable target group and minimal acceptable chunk of free blocks? thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
