Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 12:54:50 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive Mirroring Message-ID: <19971202125450.58813@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199712020049.RAA25725@usr07.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 12:49:50AM %2B0000 References: <199712012145.NAA22411@hub.freebsd.org> <199712020049.RAA25725@usr07.primenet.com>
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On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 12:49:50AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> 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... Precisely. So the answer, at least at the moment, is "no". It will be possible to extend the volume size, but this won't make any difference to the size of a file system in the volume. Greg
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