Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 21:45:40 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: growfs@tomsoft.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: growfs(8) for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200012072045.VAA68959@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20001207103444.B25381@freebsd.org> from Christoph Herrmann at "Dec 7, 2000 10:34:44 am"
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It seems Christoph Herrmann wrote: Sounds very cool, but there is no URL :) > Due to vinum it is no problem to add disks and grow your volumes but up to > now you couldn't easily make use of that new space for a file system, except > using sequence of ufsdump/newfs/ufsrestore or something similar. > > Thomas (tomsoft@freebsd.org) and me (chm@freebsd.org) have written a growfs(8) > for FreeBSD. Currently we can only grow unmounted file systems (in a clean > state) without any active snapshots inside. It is foreseen to enhance growfs to > grow mounted file systems as well, and handle active snapshots correctly. > This requires some infrastructure which is then only available in FreeBSD-5, > whilst the current design runs also happily on FreeBSD-4 and FreeBSD-3 > (tested) and possibly even on FreeBSD-2 (untested). > > To help us gathering the needed data for fixing bugs in growfs we additionally > wrote ffsinfo(8), a (very) extended version of dumpfs. > > We've sent a couple of snapshots of our code to Kirk McKusick and to Greg > Lehey. Greg also volunteered :-) for reviewing the code. We also maintain > some sort of (for some contractual reasons unilaterally) contact with Don > Coleman who is doing the same thing for BSD/OS. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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