Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:15:07 -0400 | | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: LVM / Filesystems / High availability |
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:26:14 +0200 From: Michael Marxmeier <mike@msede.com>
This still requires off-line resizing (as the re-sizing of ext2 is not trivial to do safe)? For "online" functionality, ext2 would need to be able to use or free an extend on the fly. Otherwise using a logical volume should be fine.
The plan is to eventually add kernel support for moving the location of data blocks of a file, and given an inode number and all of the directories in which that inode appears, move an inode to another location on disk. This would allow a user-mode program to be able to do on-line resizing at some point in the future.
This will be a ways off, but theoretically it really isn't all that hard to do. (As always, the devil is in the details. :-)
- Ted
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