John Jolet wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Zac Slade wrote:
>
>> On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>>> John Jolet wrote:
>>>> Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it.
>>>
>>> That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3}
>>> with certain patches IIRC.
>> WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the rundown:
>> reiser3, resizable online in two ways
>> 1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev
>> 2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev
>> XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point
>> JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev
>> ext2/3, resizable offline reliably. Online resize is a *very*
>> experimental
>> experiment. Have good backups.
>>
>> For a good reference if one is ever needed to give to a friend,
>> relative or
>> foe try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html
> okay, i'll rephrase.... being an old aix hand... with the (possible)
> exeption of reiser.... I, personally, would not trust any filesystem
> to resize without being unmounted.
Why not? No need to unmount. resize_reiserfs and xfs are tested quite
much.
> but then, compared to the aix
> lvm, which can be resized with oracle accessing at full speed, linux
> lvms are just barely getting to what I'd call "production ready".
Why's that?
Alexander Skwar
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