linux-kernel - Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608071954560.3365@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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
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