Greetings,
Is there some definitive documentation, somewhere, which covers expanding
a Linear Concatenation? What specific utilities are required?
Within Software Raid mini HOWTO at:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID
Miguel De Icaza writes:
> I changed the ext2fs code to be aware of multiple-devices
> instead of the regular one device per file system assumption.
>
> So, when you want to extend a file system, you run a utility
> program that makes the appropriate changes on the new device
> (your extra partition) and then you just tell the system to
> extend the fs using the specified device.
What is this utility program?
Is this part of the Raidtools package?
>
> You can extend a file system with new devices at system
> operation time, no need to bring the system down (and
> whenever I get some extra time, you will be able to remove
> devices from the ext2 volume set, again without even having
> to go to single-user mode or any hack like that).
>
> You can get the patch for 2.1.x kernel from my web page:
Is this now incorporated in the 2.2.5 kernel sources?
>
> http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel/ext2-volume
This link is broken, does anybody have a more recent link?
Thanks :)
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Regards,
Chuck Tellechea
Senior Technical Account Manager
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