Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 20:45:54 +0100 From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, growfs@tomsoft.com Subject: Re: growfs(8) for FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20001208204155.00cbee40@mail.drwilco.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012080857580.446-100000@thelab.hub.org> References: <20001208113836.B32113@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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> > > Stripe'd file systems (or concat ones) ... what growfs allows is someone
> > > to add an n+1 drive to their RAID/Stripe and increase the size of the
> file
> >
> > No, vinum can do this alone.
> >
> > But you couldn't grow the _fs_ after that, so there was no use for
> > this vinum feature.
>
>Okay, that is what I said ... "add an n+1 drive to ... and increase the
>size of the file system" ...
I still don't see why growfs wouldn't work on a non-vinum volume. It's just
a manipulation of the FS, not of the underlying device. But let's leave
this for the makers of growfs to answer shall we =)
And yes I know about Vinum, and I know what it can do. =)
DocWilco
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