Hello On Tuesday 19 September 2006 05:12, Jack Byer wrote: > Short summary: Will a resize program for reiser4 be available within the > next six months? >
Currently nobody works on that. So, I guess it is not very likely that reiser4.resize will be created within next six months. > Long explanation: > > I use a 3ware SATA raid card for the main storage on my home network. I > currently have 8 250 GB drives in a raid 5 + hot spare configuration. I > chose this card because it allows for online capacity expansion. My > plan was to wait until a few generations of hard drives emerged then > upgrade them one at a time in cycles. This way my storage will > periodically expand without any major downtime. > > When I first created the filesystem, there was a reiser4 resize program. > This is no longer the case. that was not a working program. > > I've began my next upgrade cycle with the purchase of two 750 GB drives. > I plan to buy one each month until all eight are replaced. Now I need to > make a decision. Do I backup my raid onto the new drives and reformat my > raid with another filesystem (xfs, reiser3, jfs), or do I put these new > drives into the array and assume that when the time comes to resize the > filesystem that a working program will exist? > I think you should change to a filesystem which has resize.