Re: resize online with ext3?
Theodore Tso <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.evms.devel |
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 07:00:07PM -0500, Jonathan Sailor wrote: > Well, to be completely paranoid, you would also need c) check that the > kernel and/or resize2fs can do online resizing. However, one thing which > I've wondered: why does the plugin refuse to expand at all? > > Assuming the old versions of resize2fs would refuse to expand a mounted nn > volume, why not just have the plugin warn before doing an online expand? > After that, you could treat it identically to offline, and if > resize2fs/the volume/linux can't do an online resize, the filesystem > will just remain small. The real problem is that I don't think anyone is actively developing or maintaining the plugin. I tried to take it on and enhance a few years ago, but the EVMS developers and I had some disagreements about whether it is worthwhile to maintain backwards source and ABI compatibility between plugins and successive releases of EVMS, and I ultimately decided that I had better things to do than to work on the EVMS ext2/3 plugin. Changing the ext3 plugin it to simply always try to do the online resizing, and simply fail if it can't really shouldn't be all that difficult. - Ted ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Evms-devel mailing list [email protected] To subscribe/unsubscribe, please visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/evms-devel