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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:33:45 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Volume managers (was: ufs/ffs resize?)
Message-ID:  <19990627093345.O427@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990627003554.A25754@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:35:54AM %2B0200
References:  <199906252100.OAA31969@sigma.veritas.com> <19990626195554.A37269@cicely8.cicely.de> <19990627003554.A25754@keltia.freenix.fr>

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On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at  0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Bernd Walter:
>> I wrote one.
>> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
>> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition.
>
> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the
> derivative version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has
> now grown an LVM system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've
> been told yesterday during a small conference about Linux and free
> software in France (and where I did a talk about FreeBSD *grin*).

Interesting.  If you find any pointers, I'd like to take a look.
Looks like this is a case where Linux is following FreeBSD :-)

> I think one of the difficulty of growing a FS is that you have to
> choose whether you need the FS to be contiguous or not. The latter
> case makes it much more difficult...

Why shouldn't it be contiguous?  That's what the volume manager's
there for.

Greg
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