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

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

On Jun 04, 2006  13:33 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 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.

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

> > 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 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.

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

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

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