From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 8 18:25:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.enteract.com (thor.enteract.com [207.229.143.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AD3915A76 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 10959 invoked from network); 9 Apr 1999 01:23:36 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by thor.enteract.com with SMTP; 9 Apr 1999 01:23:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (dscheidt@localhost) by shell-3.enteract.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id UAA47393; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:23:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shell-3.enteract.com: dscheidt owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:23:34 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Brian Feldman Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Remy Nonnenmacher , grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) In-Reply-To: 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, Brian Feldman wrote: :On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: :> 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: :> > >> What about shrinking an fs? Is that feasible? Possible? :> > > :> > > According to Kirk McKusick, no. :> > > :> > too bad !! :I think he meant maybe adding more RAID volumes :) As per earlier in the :thread, resizing is a ffs issue, not ufs. Resizing an FFS would definitely :be hard but not _impossible_. What exactly did Kirk say? I was looking at ffs, and I think you could do it. I have much better things to do with my sanity, and think that a filesystem needs to have resizing as a design criteria to be able to this usefully, especially if you want to be able to do it online. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message