From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 8 1:46:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rt2.synx.com (tech.boostworks.com [194.167.81.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99480158A5 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@synx.com) Received: from synx.com (rn.synx.com [192.1.1.241]) by rt2.synx.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA07975; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:44:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199904080844.KAA07975@rt2.synx.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:44:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Remy Nonnenmacher Reply-To: remy@synx.com Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) To: grog@lemis.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990408173016.X2142@lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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