From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 26 17: 3:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A8914CE0 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:03:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA10906; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:33:45 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA81795; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:33:45 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:33:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ollivier Robert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Volume managers (was: ufs/ffs resize?) Message-ID: <19990627093345.O427@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199906252100.OAA31969@sigma.veritas.com> <19990626195554.A37269@cicely8.cicely.de> <19990627003554.A25754@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990627003554.A25754@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:35:54AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message