Comment 22 for bug 321528

@maxadamo,

E2defrag should hopefully be releasable in Karmic+1. There are still a lot of bugs that are still being fixed in the defrag code, some of which could cause data loss. They work fine if the system isn't under stress, sure, but acid test is to make sure things work OK even when the system is under memory pressure and swapping heavily, or when the file is being actively modified at the point where the defrag takes place. The kernel patches are there, and e2defrag is in the upstream development tree (which hasn't been released yet). So it will happen, but it's always been a matter of time.

The Intel driver has never crashed on me. The Nvidia driver was crashing regularly --- users were reporting regular crashes while using it during the Januty development cycle. Unfortunately, many Ubuntu users are Windows refugees, so they see nothing wrong with the system locking up whenever they exited a 3D game (I think it was World of Goo in one case, if memory serves correctly). That is simply totally unacceptable.

I'm old school, which means job #1 for file systems and video drivers is that they don't lose data and they don't cause your system to crash. It's not about "number of file system features", or "hundreds of FPS when playing game X".