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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-10T03:11:41Z

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