Re: reiser4 resize

["Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>]

Hello

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 05:12, Jack Byer wrote:
> Short summary: Will a resize program for reiser4 be available within the
> next six months?
> 

Currently nobody works on that. So, I guess it is not very likely that reiser4.resize will be created within next six months.

> Long explanation:
> 
> I use a 3ware SATA raid card for the main storage on my home network. I
> currently have 8 250 GB drives in a raid 5 + hot spare configuration. I
>  chose this card because it allows for online capacity expansion. My
> plan was to wait until a few generations of hard drives emerged then
> upgrade them one at a time in cycles. This way my storage will
> periodically expand without any major downtime.
> 
> When I first created the filesystem, there was a reiser4 resize program.
> This is no longer the case.

that was not a working program.

> 
> I've began my next upgrade cycle with the purchase of two 750 GB drives.
> I plan to buy one each month until all eight are replaced. Now I need to
> make a decision. Do I backup my raid onto the new drives and reformat my
> raid with another filesystem (xfs, reiser3, jfs), or do I put these new
> drives into the array and assume that when the time comes to resize the
> filesystem that a working program will exist?
> 
I think you should change to a filesystem which has resize.