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

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:11:31 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.file-systems
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Theodore Tso wrote:
> And this is your argument that on-line resizing is a horrible hack,

It's an example of ext2 being bandaided to do something it was never 
originally designed to do.  If online resizing had been planned from the 
start, allocating new inode tables on the fly would be trivial, as it is 
in JFS/NTFS/...

> and ext3 should be thrown out and rewritten from scratch? 

Blatant and silly exaggeration.  Re-read the thread, and note how many 
times "cp -a ext3 ext4" was written.

	Jeff