* Petter Reinholdtsen > I have no strong feelings either way, but want to have all the tools > needed for online resizing of ext3 (and preferably ext2) in Debian. > When is the new e2fsprogs with online resizing support going to show > up in debian? Until that happen, ext2online have a mission. :)
I don't know, you'll have to ask Ted Ts'o. But the code is there already, and e2fsprogs are uploaded quite often, so I suspect the answer is "soon". > And even after that happen, ext2online have a mission for those with > documentation and scripts using it. :) Mhm. If it can be made bug-free, anyway. Currently I think it would be better to remove ext2online/ext2resize and just point people to e2fsprogs (when the new e2fsprogs version hits the archive, that is). This package wasn't included in Sarge, and it doesn't look too good with regards to Etch either. Besides, I've been fortunate enough to have had dinner with Ted Ts'o where we discussed filesystems amongst other things. The guy is truly paranoid about data security, which is a GOOD thing. :-) I trust e2fsprogs much more than any other filesystem utility suite available. In contrast to e2fsprogs, the tools for XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS have all let me down. I must admit I don't trust the ext2resize tools either. Quoth Ted Ts'o: «ext2prepare is so scary that I refuse to simply suck it into e2fsprogs until I rework it significantly (and this may require a rewrite from scratch)». Comments like this from a programmer whose code I trust very much doesn't exactly make me want to use ext2prepare on file systems containing valuable data... > Are anyone working on fixing that? Ted described it as "pending". I don't really know when he plans to implement it or how long it will take (#351720 is a wishlist for this exact feature, you might want to monitor it). > I hope the mke2fs options to enable online resizing will become > default. I suspect it will be a pain to get '-O > has_journal,resize_inode' into d-i to make sure the partitions created > by the installer can be resized. I hope so as well. (has_journal is implicit for ext3 file systems, though.) Aren't you involved with d-i developement? A wishlist couldn't hurt in any case I guess. > Thank you for the new information. I'll try to adjust the package > description to reflect what I have learned in this thread. No problem. :-) I hope that we'll soon have decent support for Ext3 online resizing in Debian (and other distros as well). Regards -- Tore Anderson
