[Libguestfs] Defrag guest fs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 02:14:46PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:12:58PM +0100, Olivier Hault wrote:
> > For a while, I wonder if it would be possible to defrag guest fs
> > from the host.  I can see two flavors a) offline defrag, b) online
> > defrag of the guest fs
> >
> > I there already solutions of works in progress to support those
> > operations ?
> 
> We don't support this right now.  However it is certainly something we
> would support.

I should add: _offline_ defrag is something we could support.  Online
defrag is a job for another tool involving some sort of guest agent.

Rich.

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