Re: File server FS?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:12:53PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > >  * Resizing - See last point
> > 
> > There are two utilities to resize ext2, which ext3 is except for an
> > additional file (journal) after umount.
> 
> Two questions:
> 
>   1. Does the size of the "appropriately sized journal (given the size
>      of the filesystem)" vary with filesystem size?

Journal size has more to do with activity when you are in data journaling
mode.  Otherwise you will be hard pressed to fill a 32MB journal with
meta-data.

> 
>   2. If so, does resize2fs change the journal size properly?
>

As long as resize2fs doesn't change the inode of the journal file you should
be fine.

> When I have resized ext3 filesystems, I have removed then recreated the
> journal manually because it wasn't clear from the documentation whether
> resize2fs does the appropriate thing.
> 

I haven't actually resized any ext2/3 partitions.  Didn't need to.  I'll do
some tests though.

Andrew, Andreas, any official comments?

Mike