Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com>
>
> * Package name : e2defrag
> Version : 0.79
> Upstream Author : Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com>
> * URL : http://launchpad.net/e2defrag
> * License : GPL
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : ext[234] filesystem defragmenter
>
> As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more
> scattered across the disk, degrading performance. A disk
> defragmenter simply re-organises the data on the disk, so that
> individual files occupy a single sequential set of disk blocks,
> and all the free space on the disk is collected together in a
> single region. This generally means that reading a whole file
> is faster, and disk accesses in general are more efficient.
>
> To use, the filesystem must not be mounted, and you need to
> back up your data first because if anything goes wrong ( power
> failure, system crash, bug in the program ) your filesystem
> is likely to be unrecoverable.
I've maintained this package in the past for a while and I stoped
because there was no upstream developement to support ext3/4
filesystems. It looks like you now took over upstream developement and
added implemented ext3/4 support.
Could I suggest coordinating with xfs_fsr (and whatever other defrag
tool is out there) to develope a common nameing scheme and interface. I
think it would be good to have a generic defrag, analog to fsck, that
then calls defrag.ext2/3/4 or defrag.xfs as appropriate. Have a single
cron job that can defrag one filesystem after another and so on.
MfG
Goswin
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