From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 7 6:48:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09BE37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 06:48:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mail.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5549B43E3B for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 06:48:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from l.ertl@univie.ac.at) Received: from pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at (pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.2.177]) by mailbox.univie.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA7EmkfV336602 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:48:48 +0100 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:48:46 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl X-X-Sender: le@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: resizing mounted filesystems Message-ID: <20021107154411.D210-100000@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi hackers, how hard would it be to implement resizing of mounted filesystems? Currently, growfs requires the filesystem to be unmounted, and this is definitely a showstopper for FreeBSD when it comes to production use. I'd really like to promote FreeBSD more in my organisation, where we currently use mostly AIX, and I often hear (and have to say that it's true) that the AIX LVM is so robust, stable and quite easy to use. Could this feature be implemented once FreeBSD 5.0 is out with its filesystem snapshot? best regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message