Re: [ext2resize] status kernel patch?

[Andreas D. <ad...@ho...>]

Adam Foran writes:
> I saw on the fs-devel list recently that Andreas is still trying 
> to get the ext2 online resizing patch into 2.3. Does this effort 
> fall into the "wild fantasy" department or has someone with lots of
> clout with Linus said that it might still have a chance of
> getting in? I'm just curious cause I've got a little program that
> online resizing support would fit in with really well and supporting
> non-standard kernel patches is not really what I want to get into.

I have submitted the kernel patch to Ted Ts'o, but he has been very
busy lately, and I don't think he has passed it on to Linus.  If Ted
says to Linus that it should go in (which he has NOT yet done, AFAIK),
then it would likely still make it in.

There is an outstanding issue with ext2online, and I want to make sure
this is resolved (it may still be an old bug that I fixed locally but
did not make it into the latest release yet).  When I'm sure that there
are no known bugs (hopefully later tonight), then I'm going to submit
the patches to Linus directly myself.

This probably puts online resizing into the "wild fantasy" category,
unless a) Linus thinks this is real cool and it doesn't affect normal
kernel operation, or b) I can convince him that I didn't submit them
earlier because LVM wasn't in the stock kernel and LVM without online
resize is like a Fin without a cell phone.

Cheers, Andreas
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