[KLUG Members] Defrag'ing ext3 filesystems?

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:50:47 -0400


On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:05:37PM -0400, Adam Williams wrote:

> >Hopefully that'll change in future releases of Redhat.  Didn't I
> >recently read that XFS has been merged into the 2.5.x kernel?
> 
> Yes. But who knows when 2.6.x will actually appear.  I've heard no
> rumors of a coming feature freeze.

Torvalds on lkml recently said that, due to vacation, it should be Oct.
20th or so.

And yes, unmounting a drive to defrag is suboptimal; I didn't say it
wasn't. I was just noting it worked.

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