Re: ext3 can't be extended while online

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:51:22AM -0400, Al Tobey wrote:
> I'm curious if anybody out there knows what the runaround is for using
> unsupported Linux features (specifically reiserfs) with RedHat AS.  ext3
> does not support online filesystem growing - I have been using this
> feature on my systems for almost two years now with reiserfs.  Of
> course, it has been of great utility and I have no intention of taking a
> step backwards with ext3, so I will be using one of reiserfs, jfs, or
> xfs, all of which support online resizing.

Andreas Dilger has implemented ext3 online resizing as of OLS2002 last summer,
but it is not merged into the mainline kernel.  It may have suffered some
bitrot in the interim. You'll find the patches for 2.4 and 2.5 and
the userland tool (ext2online) in CVS at:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/

AFAIK, Andreas still wants to get the code merged into 2.6, and if it proves
stable, 2.4, but he is swamped with Lustre work.

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky


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