From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <199906211751.LAA11908@munet-d.enel.ucalgary.ca> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm-0.6, Linux 2.2.9 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:51:57 -0600 (MDT) In-Reply-To: from "Rolf Jakob" at Jun 18, 99 09:06:29 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM on Linux , Linux FS development list Rolf writes: > Yes, that is very interesting. Ext2fs has been there for quite a long time, > so chances are good that it still works. I would like to take a look at it. > > Could you please send it to me or mail the URL where you put it ? I have uploaded the old ext2-volume-v0.1.tar.gz to my web site, http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ext2-volume-v0.1.tar.gz as I couldn't connect to tsx-11 lately, which is where I found it originally. The good news is that the patch was developed for 2.1.42, so it is at least half-way to working with 2.2. I had another quick look at the README/code, and it looks like LVM will help with some of the basic problems mentioned therein, such as handling multiple disk names, changing e2fsck, changing the mount command. All of those problems go away because we are growing an LV, rather than concatenating volumes. The one trick will be to build the basic ext2 stuctures on the extended part of the LV without touching the current filesystem - this may require modifications to mke2fs. Another good thing is that this definitely claims to work with a mounted filesystem, although it requires a remount a-la "mount -o remount,rw...", but I think this will work on an FS that has open files on it. One note is that the original author, Miguel de Icaza, is no longer supporting this code (he's busy working on GNOME), so don't bug him about it. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger University of Calgary \"If a man ate a pound of pasta and Micronet Research Group \ a pound of antipasto, would they Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering \ cancel out, leaving him still http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ hungry?" -- Dogbert