Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:05:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@synx.com>, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904081402490.41086-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990408130350.4169j-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 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
>
>
I think he meant maybe adding more RAID volumes :) As per earlier in the
thread, resizing is a ffs issue, not ufs. Resizing an FFS would definitely
be hard but not _impossible_. What exactly did Kirk say?
>
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