Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

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Andreas Dilger wrote:
On Jun 09, 2006  21:09 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Theodore Tso wrote:
Jeff, you seem to think that the fact that the layout isn't precisely
the same after an on-line resizing is proof of something horrible, but
it isn't.  The exact location of filesystem metadata has never been
fixed, not in the past ten years of ext2/3 history, and this is not a
big deal.  It certainly isn't "proof" of on-line resizing being
something horrible, as you keep trying to claim, without any arguments
other than, "The layout is different!".
No, I was proving merely that it is _different_. And the values where you see a _difference_ are the ones of which are no longer sized optimally, after you grow the fs to a larger size.

It sounds like you don't know what you are talking about, which is OK,
except that you keep harping on some non-existent point.

So you incur a performance penalty for resizing to size S2, rather than mke2fs'ing the new blkdev at size S2. Certainly within the confines of ext3 that cannot be helped, but a different inode allocation strategy could improve upon that.

???  Can you please be specific in what the performance penalty is, and
what specifically is "not sized optimally" after a resize?  How exactly
does inode allocation strategy relate to anything at all to online resizing.

Inodes per group / inode blocks per group, as I've already stated.

	Jeff


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