On 05/02/2018 08:56 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
Given that it is exception activity, dump/mks/restore is also a less convenient but more robust solution to the problem.
I'm sitting in a hotel room with a laptop. What do I backup *to*?
If you're putting your years-old root or home filesystem at risk to bisect a bug I'd humbly suggest that an external or additional disk might be more suited to the task.
See above.
I don't have any real horse in this race - if Fedora feels that shrink capability trumps features like reflink, that's fine. Just offering my thoughts on the matter, and trying to point out that shrink has its downsides.
Ack. I personally think that it's fine that XFS can't shrink. It's just important to be clear about the use cases for which it's intended. I also get uncomfortable with just dismissing use cases like this without considering that there may be legitimate reasons for them. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno@xxxxxxxxx -------- "I grew up before Mark Zuckerberg invented friendship" -------- ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
