Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Theodore Tso
2006-06-09T19:50:22Z

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