I was impressed by the extensive XFS feature list (from some comments
I read from this mailing list archives, and later from the Usenix
paper), so during the past days I coded a little extension to ext2fs
that allows a file system to be extended at runtime.
Say, you are running out of space in /home, you type:
e2extend /home /dev/sdb1
(where /dev/sdb1 is a fresh disk ready to be used as an extension to
/home). And poof! instant extra space in /home.
This is from my limited understanding of the IRIX man pages describind
xlv and xfs.
Tonight this code just passed a lot of testing, I will clean it up and
post to linux-kernel soonish.
Cheers,
Miguel.
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