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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:22:37 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: overclocking 
Message-ID:  <2481.865948957@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jun 1997 03:15:16 EDT." <18340.865926916@orion.webspan.net> 

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In message <18340.865926916@orion.webspan.net>, "Gary Palmer" writes:
>[ CC: trimmed ]
>
>"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote in message ID
><10342.865923203@time.cdrom.com>:
>> Most importantly, I'd like to be able to migrate off and dismount a
>> drive from a ccd or add one dynamically, automagically resizing the
>> filesystem on it in either case, before I could ever consider it close
>> to mission critical safe.
>
>Question: How do you plan to dynamically resize a UFS filesystem? I
>think it'd take a LOT of work, as you'd have to ensure that your
>filesystem had all the data (i.e. inode blocks, cylinder groups, etc)
>associated with each file, on the same drive as the file, and that the
>file would basically have to fit on the drive (this is assuming you
>don't want to write a new filesystem).

Veritas does this (expanding), the just add cylindergroups.  If you 
added a bit of kernel code to blacklist a cylindergroup for future
allocations, shrinking would be in range too.

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