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From: 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
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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