On 28/03/2013 1:16 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> 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

And yeah,  as I thought given TUV stance on things:

--- Comment #1 from Eric Sandeen <[log in to unmask]> ---
Rebasing a package in RHEL is quite rare.

While e4defrag could technically be backported to rhel6 e2fsprogs, it's 
not been tested at all with the RHEL6 kernel codebase, and because 
defrag has the potential to lose or corrupt data, extensive testing and 
verification would be required before we'd ever ship it.

If you have a need for e4defrag, please start this request with your Red 
Hat support channels, and they can help move this towards a formal RFE 
if appropriate.

For now, closing WONTFIX.

Thanks,
-Eric


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