Apparently, though unproven, at 01:03 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:04:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > XFS allows growing a mounted filesystem, but it has no option to > > > shrink a filesystem, mounted or otherwise. > > > > xfs isn't something I use and I had a niggling thought I might have got > > the details wrong. Thanks for that. > > It's quite a limitation. I don't normally need to shrink a filesystem, > since I use LVM to only make them as large as they need to be, but it's > bitten me a couple of times. Maybe it's time to see how ext4 does with > large files. If it were say JFS that had that limitation, one could easily say "use ext3 instead" and life would be good. But xfs is very very good at dealing with huge directories with thousands of files. Think video rendering. Or anything with a spool. One might easily want to temporarily grow a spool dir for one run then shrink it again later. Maybe use a spare extra drive for that. Whatever. Ah, but xfs can't do that. Bugger. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
