Re: Suggestion for Linux 2.3
Marek Michalkiewicz (marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl)
Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:19:00 +0100 (MET)
David S. Miller:
> The filesystem will (ideally) not have to know this has happened. It
> will just be the same sized filesystem, but the partition itself will
> have new logical disk blocks it just isn't using.
>
> Then you can add hacks the filesystem specific code to allow for
> growing a filesystem like AIX does, after the above partition
> extending has been implemented.
>
> These are all non-trivial hacks.
For a start, maybe it would be easier to write a user space program
to extend an (unmounted) ext2 filesystem? Add more block groups,
and change a few values in the superblock. Or is it more difficult
than that? (I guess so, since it has not been done yet...)
> Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & ////
> 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s ////
Just curious: on what hardware?
Marek