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Message-ID: <op.xbyk6eur0ncgu9@vitalif.vhome> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 01:12:04 +0400 From: "Vitaliy Filippov" <vitalif@...rcmc.ru> To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, "Phillip Susi" <psusi@...ntu.com> Subject: Re: A tool that allows changing inode table sizes > Wow! That is quite a project, and this patch manager sounds very > nice. Good work! Thanks :) Since that initial post I've also implemented a simple 'patchbd' kernel module - http://svn.yourcmc.ru/viewvc.py/vitalif/trunk/sftl/patchbd.c (don't look at sftl*, it's some old academic try to implement a software FTL); it now has different format of patch files, so patch_io_manager is also rewritten... It's still quite a hack of course: block maps for example are logically stored twice - once explicitly and once in the underlying FS extent tree... But it's working, opposed to an LVM snapshot than made my system hang when being actively written; it's fast since there are no additional kernel threads or work queues (except loop thread of course), it just proxies bio's to other devices... and you can finally mount and test a 'patched' block device... :) Also I've done testing on a real harddrive (that 3TB one) and actually fixed one bug after that testing :) also I've left the patch block device mounted for a ~week, ... and the patch file had grown up to 20GB. Then I've applied it with e2patch. Everything went OK. :) What I'll do next is trying to actually port it into resize2fs... -- With best regards, Vitaliy Filippov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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