[plug] Constant rsync'ing...

[Craig Ringer]

> Somewhat related to Intermezzo - does anyone know if it's possible to rescale 
> a loop-back filesystem semi-dynamically? eg; You create a 100Mb file, ext3 
> it, Intermezzo it, then 3 months later decide it'd be better to have it 
> 200Mb. Any way to "parted" the file (short of creating a new one of the new 
> size, duplicating content, etc...)? ^_^

With simple ext2 partitions, expand the file (something like:
	dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 | cat orig_file - > new_file
) then use resize2fs to resize it. I know resize_reiserfs automatically 
expands to the size of the file/partition but I'm not sure about 
resize2fs. I also don't know if the intermezzo or ext3 stuff will have 
any effect... but that's the general idea. Testing /strongly/ 
reccomended on non-critical data.

You may also want to look into AFS. I know basically nothing about it, 
but its a name that might lead you to more info - I think its a 
distributed FS that could do the job (?).

Craig