On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > On Monday 08 April 2002 12:56, Net Llama! wrote: > > THis sounds like it would work, except, what happens if someone wants to > > pay for 20MB of space? Sure, you could create a loop back file of 20MB, > > but this doesn't seem all that elegant. > > > > Also, copying the contents of one 'allocation' to a larger one is also not > > all that elegant. > > well, I know it's not elegant, but... > > as for expanding.... Take this example: > 1. setup joe with default 10M > 2. months go by, joe needs more space (20M) > 3. accounting aproves > 4. create a /loops/tmp of 10M > 5. umount /loops/joe > 6. cat /loops/tmp >> /loops/joe && rm /loops/tmp > > that would increase /loops/joe to 20M, right?
Sure, but would it maintain data integrity, or just give you a gob of data 20MB in size? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
