Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:05:57 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@synx.com> Cc: grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990408130350.4169j-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199904080844.KAA07975@rt2.synx.com>
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > On 8 Apr, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thursday, 8 April 1999 at 8:52:24 +0100, Dom Mitchell wrote: > >> On 8 April 1999, Greg Lehey proclaimed: > >>> I can't see why not, since it's possible now. What we still need to > >>> do is find a way to extend a file system, but that's a ufs issue > >>> (which has a solution), not a volume manager issue. > >> > >> What about shrinking an fs? Is that feasible? Possible? > > > > According to Kirk McKusick, no. > > > too bad !! > > Really, merging the best of all worlds (AIX PV migration, fs 'live' > extendability) *AND* fs shrinking would be a really impressive > performance. > > Think about it : A set of SCA, hot-pluggable disks. Every fs movable, > resizable (up/down), every disk content movable from/to every other > one.... the perfect power-on once, run till-end-of-universe server. *nod* have you heard of RAID? :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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