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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:06:46 +0000
From:      Joe Karthauser <joe@genius.systems.pavilion.net>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/tunefs tunefs.c
Message-ID:  <20000314130646.C1152@genius.systems.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <96700.953027534@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:52:14AM %2B0200
References:  <20000314094708.B1152@genius.systems.pavilion.net> <96700.953027534@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:52:14AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:47:08 GMT, Joe Karthauser wrote:
> 
> > Whilst we're here, any idea why we can't do a -m on a live file system.
> 
> Oooer, this gives me the willies.  Isn't this value used in determining
> block allocation strategy at mount time?

Maybe, but it's possible to have adaptive strategies.  Being able to change
this on the fly would be really useful.

I'd also like a way to modify the in-memory copy of the superblock
as well, as this'd allow us to have a partition resizer that can
run whilst the system is live.

Joe


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