From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 8 10:56:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F5515A72 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA26904; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:05:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:05:57 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Remy Nonnenmacher Cc: grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) In-Reply-To: <199904080844.KAA07975@rt2.synx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > 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. *nod* have you heard of RAID? :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message