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Re: Clarification

To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Clarification
From: Juri Haberland <juri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:55:27 +0200
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:36:13PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote:
> 
>> Uhm, do I understand you right that xfs_fsr cannot defragment - say
>> /home/* ?
> 
> Yes, with the current xfs_fsr and kernel from CVS, it won't work.
> "xfs_fsr -v -d" will sho allocation failures for non-root owned files.
> 
>> That would make it a bit useless, wouldn't it?
> 
> Arguably.  But it is fixable if you *really* needed to defragment
> /home/

Allright. Thanks for that, Chris. And yes, in case of /home it would be
easy to work around this limitation.

But nonetheless, good that this tool exists and good, that one can learn
every day something new ;)

Cheers,
Juri
(of for vacation, phew)


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