[KLUG Members] Defrag'ing ext3 filesystems?

[Adam Williams]

>>>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.

Thats great!  I must have missed that one, as I've been praying for
feature freeze to start soon.  Of course, 2.5.x has undergone
meta-evolution since 2.4.x, so the feature freeze may last awhile.  And
we all remember 2.4.x prior to 2.4.5 (eeeeEEE, YIKES!).

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

Right I wasn't arguing that it didn't work.  Just that it isn't a "real"
solution relative to the most common current uses for Linux in the
enterprise.  ext2/3 is gradually becoming Linux's dirty little secret.