[Libguestfs] [PATCH v5 REBASE 0/4] virt-resize: add support for resizing logical

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 01:46:46PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 03:43:19PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > (The other part is that these are still high risk patches that are
> > likely to break virt-resize than do anything useful.  It would IMO be
> > better to discourage people from using logical partitions in the first
> > place, especially since a good alternative -- GPT -- exists.)
> 
> Can I read you as you are rejecting any efforts to add support of
> resizing logical partitions? I admit that GPT is better, but I'm not
> sure we can abandon MBR partitions immediately, there may be old systems
> running on VMs that do not support GPT.

I not necessarily rejecting it out of hand, but the patch has got to
be simple and clear that it can't break other virt-resize uses.

Rich.

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