With the bug fixes from the last two commits, resize2fs can now fully support off-line resizing of file systems with flex_bg even if the resize_inode feature is not present; so we no longer need to disallow this combination. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- resize/main.c | 22 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/resize/main.c b/resize/main.c index 876dbaa..711e375 100644 --- a/resize/main.c +++ b/resize/main.c @@ -438,28 +438,6 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv) device_name); exit(1); } - /* - * XXXX The combination of flex_bg and !resize_inode - * causes major problems for resize2fs, since when the - * group descriptors grow in size this can potentially - * require multiple inode tables to be moved aside to - * make room, and resize2fs chokes rather badly in - * this scenario. It's a rare combination, except - * when a filesystem is expanded more than a certain - * size, so for now, we'll just prohibit that - * combination. This is something we should fix - * eventually, though. - */ - if ((fs->super->s_feature_incompat & - EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FLEX_BG) && - !(fs->super->s_feature_compat & - EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_RESIZE_INODE)) { - com_err(program_name, 0, _("%s: The combination of " - "flex_bg and\n\t!resize_inode features " - "is not supported by resize2fs.\n"), - device_name); - exit(1); - } printf(_("Resizing the filesystem on " "%s to %llu (%dk) blocks.\n"), device_name, new_size, fs->blocksize / 1024); -- 1.7.12.rc0.22.gcdd159b -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html