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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:55:58 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> To: greg@...ellic.com cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@...nkenlights.ch>, vonbrand@....utfsm.cl, ipso@...ppymail.ca, reiser@...esys.com, lkml@...productions.com, jeff@...zik.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@...esys.com Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion >> With the latest e2fsprogs and 2.6 kernels, the online resizing >> support has been merged in, and as long as the filesystem was >> created with space reserved for growing the filesystem (which is now >> the default, or if the filesystem has the off-line prepration step >> ext2prepare run on it), you can run resize2fs on a mounted >> filesystem and grow an ext2/3 filesystem on-line. And yes, you get >> more inodes as you add more disk blocks, using the original inode >> ratio that was established when the filesystem was created. > >Are all the necessary tools in and documented in e2fsprogs? > >It seems that finding all the bits and pieces to do ext3 on-line >expansion has been a study in obfuscation. Somewhat surprising since >this feature is a must for enterprise class storage management. Enterprise will hardly use ext3 on the big ones, but one of the "more commercial" things. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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