Feature changed by: Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer) Feature #310398, revision 3 Title: e4defrag openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Cucu Cătălin (becali) Description: is necessary that a file system to have a defragmenter, even e4defrag is not finished yet. is a kernel patch which do not affect the users who do not want use it. fedora has it and it is the time to have it opensuse too. Discussion: #1: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) (2010-08-22 17:24:38) Doesn't sound like a bad plan. Do you know enough of the kernel to use the buildservice to send out a merge request to the kernel devs? Cuz I doubt they have time for this... And they can use some help :D + #2: Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer) (2010-08-23 21:49:24) + I'm rather confused by this entry. + e4defrag is a userspace tool that uses the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl in + the kernel to perform online defragmentation. + I'm fairly confident the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl is in the openSUSE + 11.2 and 11.3 kernels. I imagine there may be some bugs with it, but + any patches to it should really go into the vanilla 2.6.36 kernel now + and then be backported to the various stable kernels. And all of that + should happen at kernel.org, not opensuse. + That only leaves the userspace e4defrag tool to worry about. e4defrag + is part of the 22fsprogs package. It does seem it is not being + released in openSUSE 11.3 as part of the e2fsprogs package. + Thus, this openfate entry should be to enable compilation of e4defrag + in the e2fsprogs released with openSUSE 11.4. + I have an interest in the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl for other reasons, + and I don't think Ted Tso, the ext4 maintainer, is confident enough in + its operation to recommend for generic distro use. + Thus I think e4defrag should be available in a unstable repo for + testing purposes or even in factory, but at least for now I'm happy it + was not released in 11.3 + + + -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310398