Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:33:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Volume managers (was: ufs/ffs resize?) Message-ID: <19990627093345.O427@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990627003554.A25754@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:35:54AM %2B0200 References: <199906252100.OAA31969@sigma.veritas.com> <19990626195554.A37269@cicely8.cicely.de> <19990627003554.A25754@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Bernd Walter: >> I wrote one. >> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs >> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition. > > Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the > derivative version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has > now grown an LVM system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've > been told yesterday during a small conference about Linux and free > software in France (and where I did a talk about FreeBSD *grin*). Interesting. If you find any pointers, I'd like to take a look. Looks like this is a case where Linux is following FreeBSD :-) > I think one of the difficulty of growing a FS is that you have to > choose whether you need the FS to be contiguous or not. The latter > case makes it much more difficult... Why shouldn't it be contiguous? That's what the volume manager's there for. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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