[PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:55:54PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> james wrote:
>  > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:58:51AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
>  > > I'll try to take on this project this release cycle.
>  > > Posted some thoughts at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10040
>  > 
>  > Thanks.
>  > 
>  > Consensus is to implement a partition resize in OpenFirmware as the last
>  > step of ''fs-update''.  This doesn't preclude the initramfs doing it,
>  > and the initramfs will do the filesystem resize.
> 
> i'm a little confused.  i know i reported that filesystem resize was
> quite fast now, but then james reported that a resize took a really
> long time still, and i haven't retested.  if a resize takes a really
> long time, then i don't think we can do it in initramfs, can we?

i agree.  i haven't done timings yet, all the units i could do them on
are on a runin suspend resume test.  also, i don't see the advantage to
doing the resize in initramfs, because that would delay booting.  i
think it should be done with the system up and running.  i gather it is
an interruptible process.  daniel notes in #10040 that he will
investigate how safe ext4 online resize is.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/