[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Ron Frazier]

Greg,

Thanks for the tip.  I had run across e4defrag in my research.  It sounds 
like it's not quite fully baked yet.  Since defrag is such a low level, and 
system critical function, I don't think I'll try it just yet.  I think I'll 
try googling the term you mentioned.  I never in a million years would have 
thought to type that in.

I am interested in what everyone thinks as to the need for defrag on EXT4 
in Linux vs the need for it with NTFS and Windows.

Ron

At 9/11/2010 06:23 PM -0400, you wrote:
>The tool is e4defrag.
>
>I have no idea if it is available for ubuntu.
>
>It's at least late beta quality and I've seen no data corruption
>issues with it in at least a year.
>
>But Ted Tso, the ext4 maintainer, is uncomfortable that it has had
>enough testing / code inspection.
>
>You might find more by googling for it or the corresponding ioctl().
>I don't recall the name, but if you google ext4 move extents you
>should find it.
>
>Greg


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