On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 at 06:23:43PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:10:23PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 16:57:58 +0100 (+0100), Vic wrote:
> > > > - anyone had any trouble growing an ext3 system while it was on-line
> > > > on a modern kernel?
> > >
> > > Nope. Works just fine.
> >
> > One thing to be aware of is that if it's an ext2/3 filesystem then it
> > needs to have been _created_ with resize_inode:
>
> On another topic, have you much experience of XFS?
>
> I see people saying that it much more performant and scalable than
> ext3, having some of the features that are only now being put into
> ext4, and of course the online resizing and freeze/thaw is nice.
> Any stability issues though?
>
> And is it still impossible to shrink it, even offline?
It's fair to say that Ext3 is probably not the best file system there is,
Riser and JFS both beat it in some conditions and overall XFS is better
in pretty much every way. There is a nice summary over on the Debian
Admin web site[1].
However, Ext3 is more widley deployed and better understood, which does
give it inherent advantages over the alternatives.
As far as I recall XFS can only be resized "online" and you can't shrink it.
I'm told that the XFS implementation is also a bit buggy, and that
there have been some issues in within the 2.6 kernel that don't seem to
be being addressed - but that could just be sour grapes.
[1]
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
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