linux-ext4 - Re: New e2fsprog doc on the ext4 wiki page.

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Message-ID: <20070724113507.72ed9687@rx8>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:35:07 -0500
From:	"Jose R. Santos" <jrs@...ibm.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New e2fsprog doc on the ext4 wiki page.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:48:58 +0530
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Jose R. Santos wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > 
> >
> > 
> > ext4migrate:
> > - Patches submited to the mailing list by Aneesh Kumar
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/1395
> > 
> 
> 
> I guess what we are looking at here is 
> 
> a) ext3 -> ext4 conversion would be done via option for defrag. This
> conversion is now done via a ioctl. This is the suggested method for
> defragmenting an ext3 inode (convert to ext4 and then defrag). 
> 
> b) small inode to large inode conversion is done via tune2fs -I <
> new_inode_size> I have patches for this ready. Will be sending them
> in a day or two.
> 
> So the ext4migrate command may not be really needed.
> 
> 
> -aneesh  

I will remove this item then and add the tune2fs changes.

Is the defrag code going to be part of e2fsprogs or is this going to be
a standalone app?

-JRS
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