On 28/03/2013 1:06 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 02:10 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm just wondering.... e4defrag is available in version 1.42 or above
>> of e2fsprogs. The current version of e2fsprogs is 1.42.7 (Jan 21 2013).
>>
>> I'm wondering if its possible to build a newer version (maybe 1.42.7)
>> of e2fsprogs and place it in the sl-addons repo to allow people access
>> to e4defrag etc?
>>
>> I figure that it probably makes sense to have this tool available as
>> ext4 has featured online defrag for quite some time - and ext4 has
>> been the default filesystem choice for all of EL6 - meaning there is a
>> serious install base.
>>
>> While some people argue that ext4 doesn't get fragmented etc, I can
>> vouch from experience that it can and does...
>
> I'm a bit concerned about putting updated versions of packages already
> in the tree within the addons repo.  If TUV adds in e4defrag or fixes
> some important bugs it would probably be a bit confusing to switch back
> to the main SL tree.

I can understand this. Thats the hard part about TUV and versioning. You 
never quite know what they've rolled into what ;)

> Is there a bugzilla in for getting e4defrag into the TUV package?

Why yes there is.

Lodged https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928369

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