On 11/2/11 12:41 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2011-11-02, at 10:36 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> The resize mount option seems to be of limited value,
>> especially in the age of online resize2fs. Nuke it.
>
> I agree that it is useless today. That said, with the new online
> resize support that Yongqiang Yang is working on, it would again
> be possible to just do "remount -o resize={any larger size}" and
> it would work without the need for an ioctl or special user tool.
>
> That might be useful in initrd/appliance kind of environments that
> put a premium on userspace tools. I don't run such an environment,
> but I've read many times about distro installs that want to do an
> image install to the disk and then resize it. Maybe in the age of
> DVDs and 4GB memory sticks this isn't needed anymore?
>
> I'm not dead set on keeping it, just pointing out that it might
> again become useful in the same release that this patch lands in.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
Hm. Well, just because it -can- be done ... should it be done?
We could do all sorts of things via mount options if we really
wanted to. mount -o tune2fs=^journal, you name it.
I don't have a super-strong preference either way, but we do
have a tool for this already, so duplicating it in a mount option
seems odd to me.
Thanks,
-Eric
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