From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: DILIP KURUMANGHAT <dilip.kurumanghat@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Linux LVM online shrinking :(
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:01:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FF69EF.7060303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51FF6818.5000801@redhat.com>
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.
Zdenek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-05 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-01 9:00 [linux-lvm] Linux LVM online shrinking :( DILIP KURUMANGHAT
2013-08-05 8:53 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2013-08-05 9:01 ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
2013-08-05 15:42 ` Mauricio Tavares
2013-08-05 9:53 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
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