Re: Resize of a reiser4 filesystem?

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
[...]
> Has resizefs.reiser4 been removed from 1.0.4?

I think that resizefs.reiser4, even when it was in 1.0.3, was a stub.  I 
don't think it even grew the FS.

As far as shrinking goes, forget it.  Shrinking will need a repacker, 
and Namesys wants to do an online repacker, which is great.  They want 
to be paid to do it, which is not great, because no one's currently 
paying them.

I offered to write one, but of course, this is one of the things that 
Hans would rather I not write so that he can have someone pay Namesys to 
write.

So, sometime after all the getting-into-the-vanilla-kernel fluff is 
done, we may get a resizefs.reiser4 that resizes online, growing or 
shrinking.  Maybe it'll even be able to do that from both ends, but I 
hardly dare hope.

For now, your best bet is to make sure you can do a full backup of 
anything you put on a Reiser4 filesystem, and do that backup with tar.



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