Re: resizing LUN (not file system) while the file system (ext3) is online

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Hi,

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 01:16 -0400, Andrey Dmitriev wrote:

> I understand that ext3 doesn't support online expansion (not in RedHat ES/AS
> at least)

Yes it does, and it should work fine in RHEL-4, or FC-3 or later.  Ted
just integrated the online resize user-space tools into upstream
e2fsprogs a couple of months ago, and only this week he turned on the
resize inode feature in mke2fs by default.

> However, just because the disk array can be done online that does not mean
> the application layer can handle online expansion (some file systems can
> handle online expansion, currently ext3 cannot)."

Out-of-date information. :-)

Cheers,
 Stephen


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