Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Theodore Tso <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:51:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> ext3 is already essentially xiafs-on-life-support, when you consider 
> today's large storage systems and today's filesystem technology.  Just 
> look at the ugly hacks needed to support expanding an ext3 filesystem 
> online.

And what ugly hacks are you talking about?  It's actually quite clean;
with the latest e2fsprogs, you use the same command (resize2fs) for
doing both online and offline resizing.

						- Ted
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