From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0UJdm126125 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:39:48 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.192.81]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0UJdVGj016456 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:39:36 -0500 Received: from seb (helo=highlab.com) by highlab.com with local-esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1F3esb-0001Wr-7x for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:40:01 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:40:01 -0700 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky Message-Id: Subject: [linux-lvm] while file system? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com I'm building a disk server for a small company. I'm using the standard "RAID-array-as-PV" setup, and planning to grow the filesystem as needs demand. I'd like to use a filesystem that supports online grow and online shrink. XFS, JFS, and Reiser3 all support unlimited online grow but no shrink at all. Looks like Ext3 supports online grow, but only up to +16 GB, which makes it useless on modern disks, much less arrays of modern disks.... Looks like offline grow & shrink are unlimited, which is good. Lots of old (unmaintained?) tools and kernel patches here, but lots of recent activity too. What's the current status? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky