On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:01:42AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Except one other issue with online shrinking is that we need to move > inodes on occasion and this poses a bunch of other problems over just > remapping the data blocks. Well, I did say "necessary", and not "sufficient". But yes, moving inodes, especially if the inode is currently open gets interesting. I don't think there are that many user space applications that would notice or care if the st_ino of an open file changed out from under them, but there are obviously userspace applications, such as tar, that would most definitely care. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
