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The first half of the 3.3 merge window

Posted Jan 13, 2012 22:51 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
Parent article: The first half of the 3.3 merge window

The ext4 filesystem has added support for online resizing via the EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS ioctl() command

This is technically correct. However, online resizing was already possible. If I understand correctly, this interface just allows it to be done more quickly.

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Posted Jan 15, 2012 0:54 UTC (Sun) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

Thank you for clarifying that.