Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:44:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@synx.com> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) Message-ID: <199904080844.KAA07975@rt2.synx.com> In-Reply-To: <19990408173016.X2142@lemis.com>
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On 8 Apr, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 8 April 1999 at 8:52:24 +0100, Dom Mitchell wrote: >> On 8 April 1999, Greg Lehey proclaimed: >>> I can't see why not, since it's possible now. What we still need to >>> do is find a way to extend a file system, but that's a ufs issue >>> (which has a solution), not a volume manager issue. >> >> What about shrinking an fs? Is that feasible? Possible? > > According to Kirk McKusick, no. > too bad !! Really, merging the best of all worlds (AIX PV migration, fs 'live' extendability) *AND* fs shrinking would be a really impressive performance. Think about it : A set of SCA, hot-pluggable disks. Every fs movable, resizable (up/down), every disk content movable from/to every other one.... the perfect power-on once, run till-end-of-universe server. > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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