Re: [ext2resize] error in latest online-ext3 patch

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

On Aug 28, 2002  23:56 -0400, ext...@in... wrote:
> I just tried to apply the latest version
> 
> 27832: online-ext3-2.4.18.diff 2002-07-26 13:56
> 
> of your ext3online kernel patch to my kernel and found that it had an
> error in it.  Seems like it might have been "hand edited".  :-)
> 
> Anyway, here is a patch to the patch to correct it:
> 
> --- online-ext3-2.4.18.diff     2002-08-28 23:16:04.000000000 -0400
> +++ online-ext3-2.4.18-bjm.diff 2002-08-28 23:26:46.000000000 -0400
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>  diff -ru linux-2.4.18.orig/fs/ext3/Makefile
> linux-2.4.18-aed/fs/ext3/Makefile
>  --- linux-2.4.18.orig/fs/ext3/Makefile Fri Dec 21 10:41:55 2001
>  +++ linux-2.4.18-aed/fs/ext3/Makefile  Tue Jun 25 07:43:10 2002
> -@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
> +@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
>   O_TARGET := ext3.o
> 
>   obj-y    := balloc.o bitmap.o dir.o file.o fsync.o ialloc.o inode.o \

Sorry about that.  This has been fixed in CVS and on the patch download
page.

> I want to get this into my kernel so I can at least test on
> filesystems where I don't need to expand beyond the 16GB boundary (I
> only have one filesystem currently bigger than 16GB which is my PVR's
> video filesystem).
> 
> I would like to see this all progress past "alpha" (where it's at
> currently).  What is stopping it?  Just lack of adoption?  Is nobody
> interested in expanding ext3 filesystems online?  Has the availability
> of this patch been announced on ext3-users and linux-lvm?  Perhaps we
> can get some adopters there?

Well, one issue is lack of testing, and the other is lack of time on
my part to finish the tools.  We are really into crunch time with the
Lustre development/deployment over the next couple of weeks.

No, it hasn't been announced, as I don't have the confidence in it yet
that it even "mostly" works.  If you could give it a few test runs and
say it is OK for basic functionality, then I should probably announce
it on ext3-users, ext2-devel, lvm-devel, etc.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
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