Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:55:29 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: growfs@tomsoft.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: growfs(8) for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001207185529.A59719@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <20001207103444.B25381@freebsd.org>; from chm@freebsd.org on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:34:44AM -0800 References: <20001207103444.B25381@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:34:44AM -0800, Christoph Herrmann scribbled: | Due to vinum it is no problem to add disks and grow your volumes but up to | now you couldn't easily make use of that new space for a file system, except | using sequence of ufsdump/newfs/ufsrestore or something similar. | | Thomas (tomsoft@freebsd.org) and me (chm@freebsd.org) have written a growfs(8) | for FreeBSD. Currently we can only grow unmounted file systems (in a clean | state) without any active snapshots inside. It is foreseen to enhance growfs to | grow mounted file systems as well, and handle active snapshots correctly. | This requires some infrastructure which is then only available in FreeBSD-5, | whilst the current design runs also happily on FreeBSD-4 and FreeBSD-3 | (tested) and possibly even on FreeBSD-2 (untested). | | To help us gathering the needed data for fixing bugs in growfs we additionally | wrote ffsinfo(8), a (very) extended version of dumpfs. Could you please put the code up somewhere that we can also look at? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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