Hi Tao,

On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:03:50 +0800
Tao Ma <tao...@oracle.com> wrote:

> > Assuming we *can* still write to the FS (i.e. as more of a preventative 
> > action), would the following do the same?
> > 
> > cp -a a b
> > mv b a
> > 
> > Can the above work as a *hack* online defrag? Will this reduce the amount 
> > of free space fragmentation and therefore stop (or reduce the chance of) 
> > this problem from occurring? Would we need to do it to the entire file 
> > system or just a few larger files?
> yeah, that should work.
> you can use debugfs.ocfs2 to see whether a file is more fragmented or not.

Ok, so it will defrag files, but will it help with the inability to write to 
the file system issue reported in 
http://oss.oracle.com/bugzilla/show_bugcgi?id=1189 ?

Cheers,

Brad

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