On 3/9/07, Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 08, 2007 10:06 -0800, Avantika Mathur wrote:
>
> - Aneesh Veetil has been working on a migration tool from block based to
> extents allocation. He is looking at two options.
>
> - Offline Migration: Modify e2fsprogs code to actually be able to create
> extents. This involves a lot of duplication of ext4 code (btree).
> e2fsprogs has code for interpreting extents, but code for creating them
> would have to be duplicated.
>
> - Online Migration: Use existing filesystem code to convert to extents -
> similar to online defragmentation.
I would prefer to implement this using the same code as the online defrag.
To be useful, the online defrag has to work with block-mapped files anyways.
Is there a tree (git or hg ) which i can use to get a working online defrag ?
-aneesh
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