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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2002-07-05 12:42:43
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Hi,
At 12:29 05/07/02, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
>On 5 Jul 2002, Richard Russon wrote:
> > I just saw your post on our Open Discussion forum.
> >
> > > I have an early version that can shrink defragmented partitions
> > > (or advices where it could be shrinked).
> >
> > Brilliant. Don't hide any longer :-)
>
>Sure but the above statement is valid only for about a few hours :)
>
>About cluster relocation/defrag in the future: I think partly "defrag"
>at the end of the volume is more then enough for two reasons:
>- less chance to screw things up (by a power failure of course ;)
>- could be significantly faster: people, who resize at e.g. install
> or whatever time, are really not interested in full defrag however
> fast operation.
>
>Partition edition: this is not the resizer job but parted, fdisk,
>DiskDruid, etc.
Indeed.
> > > libntfs also needs some minor enhancements and some code
> > > moved to it from mkntfs.
> >
> > That sounds reasonable.
>
>At present at least these should be moved to libntfs:
>get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), get_min_bytes_width(),
>write_min_bytes(), build_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_rlwrite().
>Do you want to do it yourself or should I send patch for
>these as well?
It's ok, I can take care of those. But if you have the patch handy send it
as well, it can't hurt. (-:
btw. Which linux-ntfs/libntfs version did you write for? The current CVS
has seen quite a big rewrite but if you have written for one of the
released versions that's ok, I will port the resizer code to the new
library interfaces...
Best regards,
Anton
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