Re: [ext2resize] Plans?

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

On Oct 13, 2003  15:05 -0700, Per Nystrom wrote:
> What are the plans for this project?  I'm on Redhat 9 using LVM and ext3
> filesystems, and it looks like ext2resize was dropped from Redhat
> sometime during the 7.x series.  The thing is, I haven't found any
> effective replacement that can resize mounted ext3 filesystems.  One of
> the most useful features of LVM is its ability to manipulate the size of
> devices while they are mounted.

To be honest, my ability to work on this project has diminished to the
point where it is basically unmaintained.  I'd love for someone to take
the whole project over and do the remaining 5% of the work needed to get
it into the 2.4 kernel.

> Are there plans to officially support ext3?  Is there another project
> I'm unaware of that already allows resizing of mounted ext3
> filesystems?  Or is it time to look at some other filesystem that
> already has that support, such as reiser or xfs?

There is completed support for resizing ext3 filesystems in CVS, and all
it needs is likely a small update to the latest 2.4 kernel.  There was some
work done to implement online resizing for ext3 in 2.5 kernels, but that
is old enough that it probably needs a fair amount of work/testing to get
it going again.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/