Debian Bug report logs - #401622
Not ready to release, too much bitrot, breaks new ext2/3 features

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Goswin Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Not ready to release, too much bitrot, breaks new ext2/3 features

Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:19:23 +0100

Package: defrag
Version: 0.73pjm1-8
Severity: grave

Hi,

I'm requesting the removal of defrag from etch. Several new ext2/3
features have been introduced since there was last developement on
e2defrag and they are becomming default options for etch now. That
means that defrag will destroy data on any ext2/3 filesystem created
in etch with default options.

While e2defrag can still be used on (really) old filesystems or with
the new features turned off I feal the risk of data loss is to grave
to call it stable. So please remove defrag from etch.

MfG
	Goswin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-frosties
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages defrag depends on:
ii  file                         4.17-4      Determines file type using "magic"
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand

defrag recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 401622@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "David A." <achoice@gmail.com>

To: 401622@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Other recomendation?

Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:30:35 +0100

Hi, do you have any other recomendation for deframentating ext2-partitions?
fsck tells me 9% non continues files after 2 years desktop usage.

regards, David.

Message #15 received at 401622@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>

To: "David A." <achoice@gmail.com>

Cc: 401622@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#401622: Other recomendation?

Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:54:09 +0100

"David A." <achoice@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, do you have any other recomendation for deframentating ext2-partitions?
> fsck tells me 9% non continues files after 2 years desktop usage.
>
> regards, David.

For ext2 without dir_index or resize_inode you can use e2defrag from
the defrag package.


But 9% non continues files isn't bad. If you really get fragmentation
your disk I/O slows down to below 200K/s. I had this on my P2P
partition which was always 90%+ full. The p2p client created sparse
files and then filled in tiny chunks at random positions in all
(incomplete) files.  Total death sentence for an fs. I think fsck
reported over 60% fragmented there.

MfG
        Goswin

Message #20 received at 401622-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>

To: 401622-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: defrag has been removed from Debian, closing #401622

Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:02:30 +0200

Version: 0.73pjm1-8+rm

The defrag package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/446691 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
-- 
Lucas

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