Re: [ext2resize] Is the ext2resize project still alive?

[Petter R. <pe...@hu...>]

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]
> The last commits were made by me.  However there's some deeper
> design problem which prevents me from fixing it cleanly and
> completely.

Hm.  I hope someone will find time to at least commit the trivial
fixes I have submitted patches for and release a new version, to
reduce the amount of modifications I have to do the Debian package and
thus make it easier for me to maintain ext2resize in Debian.  I could
commit the trivial patches myself, but then I need to get write access
to the repository.  I'm 'pere' on sourceforge.

> I think the ext2resize development is frozen now because developers
> are busy with their jobs as Andreas Dilger and I am.  And ext2resize
> became less important as it used to be after resize2fs from
> e2fsprogs was released as free software.

Sure, ext2resize isn't very important anymore, but the ext2prepare
program is still needed (until all ext2/ext3 file systems include the
resize_inode), and because of this I spend some time on the package.
Online resize is required for Linux to become a reasonable alternative
as a large scale file server, and I want that to happen. :)

> I just saw your debian 1.1.19-6 release, so reply. Thanks for your work.

Thank you.  If only I could release a version 1.1.20-1 without any
debian specific patches, I would be truly happy. :)

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen