From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 7 16:55:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 16:55:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE50737B400; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:55:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0B076573F5; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:55:30 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:55:29 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" 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> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , growfs@tomsoft.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001207103444.B25381@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001207103444.B25381@freebsd.org>; from chm@freebsd.org on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:34:44AM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: keichii@peorth.iteration.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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