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> 3) Don't hink ANY BSD can resize slice, but I know AIX could, even the
> version 3.2.4 I used to admin.  No clue how, but maybe someone else knows?
> Maybe, if it works, we should integrate it?
> Dave?  (our AIX developer-on-call)  Back me up or knock me down?

AIX uses a journal file system, which is rather completely different from a 
BSD unix file system.  I haven't figured out any of the details.  It may have 
something in common with the Margo Seltzer log-structured file system, which 
everyone seems to have lost interest in.