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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Drive Mirroring
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 00:49:50 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: grog@lemis.com, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199712012145.NAA22411@hub.freebsd.org> from "Darren Reed" at Dec 2, 97 08:44:32 am
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> > I'll be doing something like vold, though I haven't decided whether I
> > really *need* a daemon running all the time.  Raid will be a plex
> > type, along with the standard concatenated and striped kinds.
> 
> Are you planning on making it handle extending and reducing of filesystem
> sizes ?

You mean "generate extend/reduce events that FS's smart enough to be
able to deal with them (ie: *not* FFS or EXT2FS or ... but *maybe*
NTFS depending on implementation, or JFS)"?

Adding the events is the easy part.  The FS's handling the events correctly
in an FS specific way is harder.

It's an FS problem, not a RAID/CCD problem that you want solved...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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