On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> wrote: > Dne 5.8.2013 10:53, Zdenek Kabelac napsal(a): > >> Dne 1.8.2013 11:00, DILIP KURUMANGHAT napsal(a): >>> >>> Hi Team, >>> >>> You might already have come across this stuff many a times. >>> >>> I am sending this query as to why LVM is not supporting online shrink. >>> How is that AIX can do the shrink but not in our best Linux. >>> >>> Is there a big difference i the underlying architecture which prevents us >>> from >>> an online shrink? >>> >> >> You are asking this question on a wrong mailing list. >> >> LVM2 of course does fully support online device shrink. >> >> The other side of story is - there is no filesystem I'd know about which >> would be supporting online shrinking. The fact is - it's pretty hard > > > Except for btrfs - which on the other hand doesn't need lvm2. > So if you need something shrinkable online - try to go with btrfs. > btrfs is not the only one; I just cannot remember of the ones you can use with lvm2. I mean, ext(1,2,3,4) do not like to be sized down live and just like btrfs, zfs and jfs2 (at least on AIX) do not need lvm2. But, you can use jfs in linux. Ok, I need coffee. > Zdenek > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/