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Apparently, though unproven, at 01:03 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Neil |
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Bothwick did opine thusly: |
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> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:04:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > XFS allows growing a mounted filesystem, but it has no option to |
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> > > shrink a filesystem, mounted or otherwise. |
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> > xfs isn't something I use and I had a niggling thought I might have got |
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> > the details wrong. Thanks for that. |
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> It's quite a limitation. I don't normally need to shrink a filesystem, |
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> since I use LVM to only make them as large as they need to be, but it's |
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> bitten me a couple of times. Maybe it's time to see how ext4 does with |
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> large files. |
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If it were say JFS that had that limitation, one could easily say "use ext3 |
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instead" and life would be good. But xfs is very very good at dealing with |
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huge directories with thousands of files. Think video rendering. Or anything |
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with a spool. |
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One might easily want to temporarily grow a spool dir for one run then shrink |
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it again later. Maybe use a spare extra drive for that. Whatever. |
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Ah, but xfs can't do that. Bugger. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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