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

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

[Andreas Dilger]
> You've been added as a developer, so you are free to merge in all of
> the RH and Debian patches to CVS.

Thank you.  I've commited the obvious ones from the debian package,
and prepared the source for release.  'make distcheck' now work.

The remaining ones are the byteorder and resize_inode patches, as well
as the patches disabling offline resizing (patches
01_endianess-fixes-fedora, 02_noresize-bigendian, 05_ext3newformat
and70_nofallback).  I'm not sure which of these have equivalent
patches commited already, and which should be commited as they are.
Will need to investigate more.

Any of you know more?

> I agree.  My preference would be to modify e2fsprogs resize2fs to
> allow it to prepare filesystems.  In essence the prepare step is
> mostly just a filesystem resize (i.e. possibly moving the inode
> table and bitmaps to allow a bigger group descriptor table), and as
> a last step adding the resize inode (with e2fsck can already do).  I
> don't _think_ it would be a huge amount of work, I just never have
> time to work on it.

Sounds reasonable to me, but I do not have the knowledge about ext2
and ext3 file systems to do it myself, and am unlikely to find time to
study the topic any time soon.  Would such change work with online
resizing too?  Until resize2fs is modified to do what it takes to
handle online resizing on any ext2 and ext3 file system, I believe
ext2prepare still have its place.

> Your happiness is entirely in your hands now.  Not too often you are
> given this opportunity :-).

Hehe.  :)

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen