linux-ext4 - Re: ext2/3/4 online defrag

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Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 12:33:19 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Eric <erpo41@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext2/3/4 online defrag

> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:11 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > But me (and several other people
> > independently as I've learnt recently) have written some tools which
> > should result in something useful. If you're interested, you can join
> > prefetch-devel@...glegroups.com - it's led by one guy who is doing
> > defrag and stuff as his google summer of code project.
> 
> Is this different from the ext4/extent-based defrag patch that's been
> mentioned on this list?
  Yes, it is different. In particular, it's offline only tool so far...

> > > *An implementation of an ext* filesystem driver can work with any
> > > ext2/3/4 filesystem as long as it supports the necessary revision
> > > (GOOD_OLD_REV or DYNAMIC_REV) and feature flags set in the filesystem.
> >   Not sure what you mean here...
> 
> The "ext2 filesystem"/"ext3 filesystem"/"ext4 filesystem" terminology
> was confusing to me when I first started reading about them. In my mind,
> it implied that those three filesystems were more different than they
> actually are.
> 
> I think it would be more accurate to say that they are all essentially
> the same filesystem, and that any filesystem driver that can mount a
> given filesystem can mount any other ext2/3/4 filesystem of the same
> revision with the same feature flags set.
> 
> I was asking for confirmation of this assumption, but I've since found a
> lot of really good documentation that has cleared up a lot of things.
  Yes, basically it's just a question of a feature set. But for example
current online defrag from Takashi requires extents, which are not
available for ext2 or ext3.

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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