From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCtHR-0000L3-Da for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:51:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1P6oeCl017818; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:50:40 GMT Received: from hetzner.email-server.info (new.email-server.info [213.133.109.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1P6hGjb031822 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:43:16 GMT Received: from hd.bei.digitalprojects.com (e182053087.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.182.53.87]) by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCFC9646 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:43:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (blatt.bei.digitalprojects.com [192.168.1.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hd.bei.digitalprojects.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEDDB8C0A4 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:43:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43FFFCE5.2000106@mid.email-server.info> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:44:53 +0100 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060211) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question References: <43FEA1CF.5080404@mid.email-server.info> <200602242135.00930.krakrjak@volumehost.net> <5283AACA-DC0D-409D-A67A-0BCC9666AC14@jolet.net> In-Reply-To: <5283AACA-DC0D-409D-A67A-0BCC9666AC14@jolet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3db18468-e5ee-47fd-bbcc-45739f862f35 X-Archives-Hash: 3f3a41de9461cef575152b05b8d56d1d John Jolet wrote: > On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Zac Slade wrote: > >> On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: >>> John Jolet wrote: >>>> Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. >>> >>> That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} >>> with certain patches IIRC. >> WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the rundown: >> reiser3, resizable online in two ways >> 1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev >> 2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev >> XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point >> JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev >> ext2/3, resizable offline reliably. Online resize is a *very* >> experimental >> experiment. Have good backups. >> >> For a good reference if one is ever needed to give to a friend, >> relative or >> foe try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html > okay, i'll rephrase.... being an old aix hand... with the (possible) > exeption of reiser.... I, personally, would not trust any filesystem > to resize without being unmounted. Why not? No need to unmount. resize_reiserfs and xfs are tested quite much. > but then, compared to the aix > lvm, which can be resized with oracle accessing at full speed, linux > lvms are just barely getting to what I'd call "production ready". Why's that? Alexander Skwar -- Be cheerful while you are alive. -- Phathotep, 24th Century B.C. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list