From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 26 18:41:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [205.181.251.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E228514D30 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA26836; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:40:34 -0400 From: "Norman C. Rice" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: ufs/ffs resize?) Message-ID: <19990626214034.B26099@emu.sourcee.com> References: <199906252100.OAA31969@sigma.veritas.com> <19990626195554.A37269@cicely8.cicely.de> <19990627003554.A25754@keltia.freenix.fr> <19990627093345.O427@freebie.lemis.com> 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: <19990627093345.O427@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. http://linux.msede.com/lvm/ -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > 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