Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 1998 19:18:48 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: How/where do we submit patches now? |
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 23:31:12 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 07:33:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
It's included in Partition Magic now and will be released under GPL in 18 months. The fact that Partition Magic's company _paid_ Tytso to write the program is what made the program existant. I'm pretty sure that the program wouldn't have been written right now when PM wouldn't have paid for it...
I find it half-way amusing that people often overlook the equivalent functionality for ext2fs that Miguel implemented nearly a year ago.
Miguel implemented a first cut at LVM support, which is not equivalent in functionality to resize2fs.
There is certainly overlap between certain applications in which you might want to be able to resize an existing parition, and when you might want to add an additional logical volume; however, I most certainly wouldn't call it "identical". There are some problems which LVM simply won't solve (for example, compressing an existing partition to make room for another partition), which resize2fs will solve handily, and there are other problems for which LVM is clearly the right answer.
We most certainly haven't ignored the concept of adding LVM functionality to ext2fs; it's not high on the priority list right now, since we have some other features (journalling, b-tree, and extent maps) which will do more good to more people. I am planning on extending the size of block numbers when adding extent maps to make it easier to add LVM support in the future; so it'll be easier to do LVM cleanly after adding some of the other support that I have in mind.
- Ted
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