>>>>> Ryusuke Konishi writes: >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:06:54 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> Unfortunately, I don't plan to switch my “production” hosts to Linux >> 3 yet. However, for the purposes I want to give NILFS a try I can >> assume that I can easily umount the volume whenever I need to resize >> it, to run whatever user-space code necessary. >> Thus, I'm curious, are there any plans to implement “off-line” NILFS >> resizing? > Implementing Off-line resizing is a bit tough task because it > requires a user space library to read internal meta data of the nilfs > file system and append updated blocks to it. This is almost > equivalent to implementing kernel functions of nilfs in user land. > So, we have no concrete schedule now. ACK, thanks. I wonder, how complicated this task would be? In particular, do I need to alter all the segments to resize filesystem, or only specific ones? Also, are these internal metadata records just “a bunch of C structs”, or something more complex? […] > For other Linux distros, the standalone kmod may be applicable with > or without customizing the source code. it has a glue code to > support multiple kernel versions. For reference, the source code of > the standalone kmod is available at: > git://github.com/nilfs-dev/nilfs2-kmod-centos6.git ACK, thanks. -- FSF associate member #7257 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
