On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:14:54PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > Not a problem, a lot of people don't see the delineation right off. > Filesystems like VXVFS (Veritas) in their commercial implementations are > really LVM+Filesystem in one. Not sure what the linux port is looking like > these days though. Actually veritas have multiple products, and the FS is separate to the LVM (E.g. there is file system and volume manager - which are different products but can be purchased together as part of the 'foundation suite'). > ReiserFS has hot expansion capabilities, but no (yet?) hot shrinking > capabilities. One of the reasons it has these features and ext2/3 does not > is because ext2/3 are very old filesystems designed on a different > mentality of a static filesystem. On-line expansion of ext2 based > filesystems is an extremely complicated venture, it might honestly even be > impossible. Um. I've got a couple of RHEL4 boxes at work, and redhat ship 'ext2online' with the platform - that has grown my ext3 filesystems multiple times. One of the volumes I've got has been grown 5 times since the machine was last rebooted - and seems to be fine. (apologies for the offtopic discussion, but want to make sure that people leave with accurate answers *grin*) _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
