Re: [ext2resize] ext2resize on big endian, corrupt file systems and crashes?

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

On Mar 16, 2006  07:30 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Btw, is this a good place to post patches?  I found a few patches in
> Debian relative to version 1.1.19, and suspect they should be applied
> upstream as well.  No way to check if they already made it into the
> CVS, as described above.

As good a place as any.  I'm actually somewhat interested in getting
rid of ext2resize itself and just merging the functionality into
e2fsprogs as RH has done, just to avoid duplication of maintenance
effort.

> I made the current debian patches available from
> <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/ext2resize-debian/>,
> and the fedora patches available from
> <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/e2fsprogs-fedora/>.
> 
> Please have a look and include the ones that seem good to the next
> release of ext2resize. :)
> 
> Is a new release of ext2resize planned in the near future?

I'd be supportive of this if Coywolf is interested to merge in the Fedora
and debian patches, after some inspection of course.  In a brief review of
the patches, one I can't understand is the use of a custom canonicalize()
function instead of the realpath() glibc function?  The rest of them seem
to be reasonable.

I'm also considering if we should at least install the ext2online binary
as ext3online and maybe have an (sym)link for compatibility.  It actually
will not work on ext2 filesystems any more.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.