Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:05:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910271300460.35360-100000@calis.blacksun.org> In-Reply-To: <19991027095431.45462@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> I think you're mixing things up here. Journalling and the number of > slices available have nothing to do with anything. Anyway, the Vinum > layer effectively removes this limitation. Again this is a result of UFS on top of FFS (AFAIK). You can not have more than 7 UFS slices per FFS partition. (Please forgive any mistaken references here as I should not be near this computer with the flu that I appear to have.) > There is currently a project underway to grow file systems. Nobody's > been interested enough to shrink them (which is a lot more work), but > I'd guess it would be less difficult than writing a whole new fs. What good is the ability to grow a partition without the ability to shrink another? (That is rhetorical. I realize that when adding a disk it will help but in the case of "I ran out of space and I need to expand this FS into that one it does not help") > > Softupdates is also not recommended for use on the root partition > > and it still seems to be just a little flaky. > Possibly, but it's not clear that it will ever be flakier than a new > file system :-) Agreed but I would like to try. I also do not like the softupdates license (again unless it has changed) as I want a fs that I can distribute with the os instead of as an add on. > You might also take a look at SGI's xfs. Again I would love to but the license will not be compatible and I would prefer not to contaminate this project. I intend to use XFS as a feature reference but not as a code reference. -don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.05.9910271300460.35360-100000>