On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:33:51AM -0500, Michael Brancato wrote: > > David Lethe wrote: > >> Respectfully, go bother the LVM, jfs, ext, afs, and all the other >> file >> system people. You have zero chance of getting them on board to support >> online file system shrinking without any guarantee of scratch space. >> My advice is that you don't tell them you also want them to resize while >> the md volume is being resized, and also don't tell them that the array >> might be degraded. > > I didn't bring up nor argued the filesystem online resize issue, you > did. Why does the filesystem have to be online during the reshape or > the shrink? People shrink filesystems and partitions while offline > everyday, and the sun still rises. Filesystem support for reshaping > (not resizing) should be a non-issue. Resizing shrink exists today. Not for xfs. -- http://www.critikart.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
