From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Nirjhar Roy (IBM)" <nirjhar.roy.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shrinking XFS - is that happening?
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:48:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aJnKcktFW6jPBETP@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a9071104eec47d91ab44c86465d08d76e0cf808.camel@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 10:20:15AM +0530, Nirjhar Roy (IBM) wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-08-04 at 17:13 +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I beleive I heard something from someone some time back about work in progress on shrinking xfs filesystems. Is this something that's been worked with or have I been lied to or just had a nice dream?
> >
> > roy
> I have recently posted an RFC[1]. The work is based/inspired from an old RFC[2] by Gao and ideas
> given by Dave Chinner.
Like the previous attempts it doesn't seem to include an attempt to
address the elephant in the room: moving inodes out of the to be
removed AGs or tail blocks of an AG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-11 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-04 15:13 Shrinking XFS - is that happening? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2025-08-05 4:50 ` Nirjhar Roy (IBM)
2025-08-11 10:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-08-11 15:25 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-01-12 14:35 ` Nirjhar Roy (IBM)
2026-01-12 21:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-08-05 5:01 ` Nirjhar Roy (IBM)
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