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From: Spelic <spelic@shiftmail.org>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: XFS shrinking planned?
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:19:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <544FC202.1000200@shiftmail.org> (raw)

Hello all,
XFS is such a good high performance filesystem, kudos for that.

However for large filesystems (which are mainly those that require high 
performance) the ability to shrink would be really needed. People 
usually do not have double the space so to move files to a smaller XFS 
filesystem, and the inability of XFS to shrink forbids major 
reorganizations of the storage systems.

Currently, for that reason I use ext4. Performance is still decent and 
flexibility is higher due to the ability to shrink, but I would use XFS 
if it could shrink.

I suppose shrinking ability is not even planned, is it?

Thank you
S.

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-28 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-28 16:19 Spelic [this message]
2014-10-28 17:39 ` XFS shrinking planned? Eric Sandeen
2014-10-29  9:37   ` Spelic
2014-10-29 13:03     ` Eric Sandeen

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