From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Nirjhar Roy (IBM)" <nirjhar.roy.lists@gmail.com>,
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shrinking XFS - is that happening?
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:25:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250811152532.GH7965@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aJnKcktFW6jPBETP@infradead.org>
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 03:48:18AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
Anyone who wants to finish the evacuation part is welcome to pick this
up:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/173568777852.2709794.6356870909327619205.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs/
--D
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-11 15:25 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
2025-08-11 15:25 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
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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