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... > Hi Steven, 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. Is there a bugzilla in for getting e4defrag into the TUV package? Pat -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/