Re: FileSystem Support (Rieser, JFS, EXT3, et al.)

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:20:07PM -0700, IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R wrote:
> I am of course curious about the development of the ReiserFS resizing stuff.

The reiserfs people have written a reiserfs resizer.  I hope to
be able to interface with external resizers from libparted soon.

> I can use PM6.0 to resize NTFS, but PM6.0 may never support the plethora of
> different Linux based journaling filesystems, which parted most likely,
> will. What is the status of each filesystem with regard to parted?

ATM, only ext2 (resize end only) and fat are supported.  However, there are
external resizers for jfs (grow end only), reiserfs (resize end only) and
xfs (grow end only).  I intend to begin writing an NTFS resizer RSN.

I think GNU/Linux users will move towards LVM in the long term, so
resizers capable of moving the start will become less important, except
for interfacing with the Windows world.  (And even that is moving towards
LDM, an LVM-look-alike).

I would like libparted to be able to deal with LVM/raid properly.

I plan to make the NTFS resizer capable of moving the start (as well
as the end).

Andrew