linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 00/11 RESEND] e4defrag: fragmentation score rework and cleanups

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:13:41 +0900
From:	Kazuya Mio <k-mio@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11 RESEND] e4defrag: fragmentation score rework and
 cleanups

2011/06/16 17:18, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I noticed that when using e4defrag on such a file-based image, while the
> guest is running (i.e. the file is in use), all IO from that guest to
> the disk (disk is this file) is "frozen".
>
> In other words, as soon as we run e4defrag, any guest writes to that
> file will only complete if e4defrag finishes. As the images can be quite
> big, it can mean guest IO can be frozen even for hours.
>
>
> Is it a known/intended limitation (at least, it behaved like this when I
> tried e4defrag a few months ago)?

Thank you for the feedback. I will try to reproduce this problem later.

Regards,
Kazuya Mio
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