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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 1998 03:52:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, blkirk@float.eli.net, jdn@acp.qiv.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
Subject:   Re: SCSI Bus redundancy...
Message-ID:  <199802280352.UAA27953@usr06.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802280342.TAA00990@baloon.mimi.com> from "Satoshi Asami" at Feb 27, 98 07:42:06 pm

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>  * FFS can support increased size through the addition of cylinder groups.
> 
> Patch?

I'll consider doing one; it's a tunefs tweak, really.  If I do, though,
it will probably conflict with the soft updates changes to tunefs, at
least until they are committed (I thought that was going to happen soon?).


>  * There are (minor) fragmentation issues with doing this, but they can
>  * be addressed seperately (most easily with a backup/restore).
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Um, I don't think we need you to tell us that, Terry. ;)

The right way is a defragger.  A backup/restore is the cowards way out.
;-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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