From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 27 19:55:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10356 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10313 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:55:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09013; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:53:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd008979; Fri Feb 27 20:52:59 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA27953; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:52:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802280352.UAA27953@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 03:52:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, blkirk@float.eli.net, jdn@acp.qiv.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl In-Reply-To: <199802280342.TAA00990@baloon.mimi.com> from "Satoshi Asami" at Feb 27, 98 07:42:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * FFS can support increased size through the addition of cylinder groups. > > Patch? I'll consider doing one; it's a tunefs tweak, really. If I do, though, it will probably conflict with the soft updates changes to tunefs, at least until they are committed (I thought that was going to happen soon?). > * There are (minor) fragmentation issues with doing this, but they can > * be addressed seperately (most easily with a backup/restore). > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Um, I don't think we need you to tell us that, Terry. ;) The right way is a defragger. A backup/restore is the cowards way out. ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message