From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext2/3 block remapping tool
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 11:28:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070501152806.GC26093@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070501060142.GZ5967@schatzie.adilger.int>
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:01:42AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Except one other issue with online shrinking is that we need to move
> inodes on occasion and this poses a bunch of other problems over just
> remapping the data blocks.
Well, I did say "necessary", and not "sufficient". But yes, moving
inodes, especially if the inode is currently open gets interesting. I
don't think there are that many user space applications that would
notice or care if the st_ino of an open file changed out from under
them, but there are obviously userspace applications, such as tar,
that would most definitely care.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-01 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-26 19:29 Ext2/3 block remapping tool Jan Kara
2007-04-27 18:09 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-30 10:12 ` Jan Kara
2007-04-30 12:09 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-30 12:29 ` Jan Kara
2007-05-01 6:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-01 15:28 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-05-01 18:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-01 22:18 ` Theodore Tso
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