On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:48:50PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > There still is - at least for ext[23]. Even offline resizers > can't do resizes from any to any size, extfs developers recommend > to recreate filesystem anyway if size changes significantly. > I'm too lazy to find a reference now, it has been mentioned here > on linux-raid at least this year. It's sorta like fat (yea, that > ms-dog filesystem) - when you resize it from, say, 501Mb to 999Mb, > everything is ok, but if you want to go from 501Mb to 1Gb+1, you > have to recreate almost all data structures because sizes of > all internal fields changes - and here it's much safer to just > re-create it from scratch than trying to modify it in place. > Sure it's much better for extfs, but the point is still the same. I'll just mention that I once resized a multi-Tera ext3 filesystem and it took 8hours +, a comparable XFS online resize lasted all of 10 seconds! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
