From: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
To: Wendy Cheng <s.wendy.cheng@gmail.com>
Cc: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] generic wrappers for multi-device FS operations
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:37:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110308183709.GC2527@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=uMMN3jEdh3auijdxM+1ZR529oPri4HqRaasYx@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:05:40AM -0800, Wendy Cheng wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:04:25PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> >> To make this trivial to do for users, I think that it would be really
> >> nice to have a two-level wrappers for things like resize, add a volume,
> >> shrink, etc. Similar to the way we have mount or fsck invoke file system
> >> specific bits.
> >> Good idea? Bad idea?
> >
>
> So the "resize" is on the filesystem, not the volume ? The "grow" part
> is probably easy. Unfortunately, the "shrink" may not be easy for some
> of the filesystems:
>
Who wants to make their fs smaller anyway? ;)
Josef
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-08 17:04 generic wrappers for multi-device FS operations Ric Wheeler
2011-03-08 17:04 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-08 17:43 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2011-03-08 18:05 ` Wendy Cheng
2011-03-08 18:05 ` Wendy Cheng
2011-03-08 18:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-08 18:34 ` James Bottomley
2011-03-08 18:51 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-08 20:16 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2011-03-08 18:37 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2011-03-08 18:51 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-09 14:23 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-03-09 14:23 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-03-09 15:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-09 15:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-10 15:28 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-03-10 15:30 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-09 21:36 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-09 21:36 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-09 21:49 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-03-09 21:49 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-03-10 5:04 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-10 5:04 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-08 20:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-03-08 20:58 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-08 22:23 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2011-03-09 2:11 ` Dave Chinner
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