Re: ql2300_conf

[Tom Sightler <ttsig tuxyturvy com>]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:26 -0500, D Canfield wrote:
> I gave this configuration a shot today on RHEL4. I'll admit that I have 
> no experience using the mdadm tools even on a more conventional disk 
> setup, but from what I can tell, even this "supported" configuration is 
> not possible under RHEL4, as resize2fs is not included in RHEL4, so it's 
> impossible to shrink the partitions by 64K as is apparently required. I 
> tried doing this without resizing the filesystem on my /boot partition, 
> and the boot failed predictably claiming that the superblock and 
> physical sizes were off by (can you guess?) 64K.
> 
> Anyone have any more ideas on this?

This is intersting.  It would appear to be an oversight.  RHEL4 includes
ext2online which allows online resizing, but only supports growing a
filesystem not shrinking it.  I can only assume that not including
resize2fs, which allows offline growing or shrinking a filesyste, was an
oversight as it's included with RHEL3.

My guess is someone thought "Why would we include two different resize
tools?" not realizing that the online tool won't shrink a file system.  

I think I'd file a bug.

Later,
Tom