From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Subject: Re: reiser4 resize Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:23:01 +0400 Message-ID: <200609191723.01936.vs@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jack Byer Cc: reiserfs-list@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.