From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751395AbWFJDLl (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 23:11:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750823AbWFJDLl (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 23:11:41 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:13487 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721AbWFJDLk (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 23:11:40 -0400 Message-ID: <448A3863.3060906@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:11:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Theodore Tso CC: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Andrew Morton , Matthew Frost , "ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds , Mingming Cao , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Tomas Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 References: <1149886670.5776.111.camel@sisko.sctweedie.blueyonder.co.uk> <4489ECDD.9060307@garzik.org> <1149890138.5776.114.camel@sisko.sctweedie.blueyonder.co.uk> <448A07EC.6000409@garzik.org> <20060610004727.GC7749@thunk.org> <448A1BBA.1030103@garzik.org> <20060610013048.GS5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <448A23B2.5080004@garzik.org> <20060610020306.GA449@thunk.org> <448A2A6F.8020301@garzik.org> <20060610025424.GA8536@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060610025424.GA8536@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Theodore Tso wrote: > And this is your argument that on-line resizing is a horrible hack, It's an example of ext2 being bandaided to do something it was never originally designed to do. If online resizing had been planned from the start, allocating new inode tables on the fly would be trivial, as it is in JFS/NTFS/... > and ext3 should be thrown out and rewritten from scratch? Blatant and silly exaggeration. Re-read the thread, and note how many times "cp -a ext3 ext4" was written. Jeff