From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932251AbWHGSHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:07:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932255AbWHGSHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:07:53 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:45250 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932251AbWHGSHw (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:07:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:55:58 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: greg@enjellic.com cc: Theodore Tso , Adrian Ulrich , vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion In-Reply-To: <200608071737.k77Hbjph002429@wind.enjellic.com> Message-ID: References: <200608071737.k77Hbjph002429@wind.enjellic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> 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 --