From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 7 17:56:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA09225 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 17:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA09216 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 17:56:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA02025; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 19:56:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 19:56:23 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Satoshi Asami cc: richard@pegasus.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning In-Reply-To: <199711080150.RAA02132@vader.cs> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * > Back to the main question; I don't see any reason why the BSD file system > * > couldn't be extended to allow for on-the-fly expansion of partitions. > * > Toss in a pointer to the new space, when you feel like adding some, > * > initialize it and continue on. > * That's not the tough part. It's essentially the same coding method as > * ccd's. > > What do you mean? ccd is not a filesystem. I know. What I meant was, it looks to me like, the code for expanding filesystems would seem to be a lot like the code for implementing ccd'd partitions; you just map various physical places on the disk(s) to the same logical partition. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*