[DRBD-user] DRBD+LVM+Ext3 online resize

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Fri Dec 19 17:18:47 CET 2008

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Artur (eBoundHost) schrieb:
> Hello List!
> 
> Any pointers about building a system that will be easily resizeable?  This should probably go on the ext3 list but I figure people here probably have done this many times.
> 
> So when building the initial LVM and mkfs.ext3, what are some options that I should be using on an array that will start at 2TB and grow to about 10TB as I add more disks?
> 
> Any special options for inodes?

Make sure your ext3 filesystem has resize_inode flag/feature set.
You can check it with dumpe2fs.

If you have an old system, your e2fsprogs may not set it automatically 
when creating a filesystem.


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