Can anyone tell me if the zerofree option for ext3 has been back ported to RedHat EL4 or EL5? Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- OPENLANE Inc., T: 650-532-6382, F: 650-532-6441 4600 Bohannon Drive, Suite 100, Menlo Park, CA 94025 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Ulf Zimmermann wrote:> Can anyone tell me if the zerofree option for ext3 has been back ported > to RedHat EL4 or EL5?there appears to be no backporting to do; it's a single .c file that makes simple use (I assume...) of libext2... But no, it's not in Fedora, EPEL, or RHEL. Builds fine on my rhel5 box. If you wanted to, you could be the maintainer for Fedora, and put it into EPEL, which would make it available for RHEL :) -Eric
"Ulf Zimmermann" <ulf at openlane.com> wrote:>Can anyone tell me if the zerofree option for ext3 has been back ported >to RedHat EL4 or EL5?I used to maintain backports of zerofree (the kernel patch, not the utility) to EL4 and EL5, but since I wasn't actually using them I gave up. The last RPMs I have are from December of last year. Contact me directly if you want them. I don't recommend the ext3 patch as it hasn't seen much use. I regularly use the ext2 version (on Fedora 9), but be warned that Ted has expressed concerns about it. Ron