Re: LVM2 and resizing

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Author: Matt Graham
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Subject: Re: LVM2 and resizing
After a long battle with technology, Austin Godber wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Mike Bydalek wrote:
>> The caveat is that you need to have patched your kernel with the
>> ext2online patch, which I believe is fairly common nowadays.
>> Earlier wasn't the case, which was one reason why on some of my old
>> machines (I'm talking 4+ years) they're using reiserfs.
> Aha, thanks. A kernel patch ... thats probably why I avoided it in
> the past ...


The patch is in the vanilla kernel, has been since at least 2.6.22, and was
probably around several minor versions before that. I don't know for sure
when they put it in though.

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