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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:49:59 -0400
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:51:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> ext3 is already essentially xiafs-on-life-support, when you consider 
> today's large storage systems and today's filesystem technology.  Just 
> look at the ugly hacks needed to support expanding an ext3 filesystem 
> online.

And what ugly hacks are you talking about?  It's actually quite clean;
with the latest e2fsprogs, you use the same command (resize2fs) for
doing both online and offline resizing.

						- Ted