Op woensdag 03-10-2007 om 15:35 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Phillip Susi: > Jan Claeys wrote: > > About doing "live" fsck & defrag on a rw filesystem, IIRC Windows NT has > > a system API for doing e.g. atomic "swap 2 sectors" operations; does > > 'linux', or any of the filesystem drivers for it, support something like > > that? > > I think XFS or JFS supports online defragmenting, but no other work > has been done in that area due to lack of need. Even the offline > defrag package has not been maintained for the last 10 years due to > lack of interest. When you don't have a silly problem with > fragmentation, there is no motivation to solve the non problem.
Ext2/ext3 suffer from fragmentation too, when available disk space gets low enough. But I think a similar API could be used to mark & move bad sectors or "lost" sectors, and that's more related to this discussion... -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
