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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Is there some advantage to sparse-super?
>
> I think it is faster to e2fsck a sparse-super partition.
>
> > Would it be difficult or impossible for me to compile a
> > static mke2fs that will work on sparse-super partitions?
>
> Should be possible.  You'll want to compile both mke2fs
> and e2fsck.

The latest source code, whole package, is 3.5MB package. Version 1.38. 
Since version 1.24 it has compiled with dietlibc.  Since some earlier 
version with libc5.  I found instructions for a 'lightweight linux' for 
older hardware, involving busybox and uclibc, and compiles e2fsprogs I 
think with uclibc.  I may attempt it some day, with help.  I don't have 
BL3 set up for compiling.

Some earlier version won't do partitions over 2GB without trashing them.

There is also a linux defrag that hardly anyone uses.

 > > Cheers,
> Steven