anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
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there are several
greg lehey has been collecting them.
julian
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Aaron Smith wrote:
> anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
>
> aaron
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:anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
:
:aaron
It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
to be grown or s
> :anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
> :
> :aaron
>
> It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
> project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
>
> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
> project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
> to be grown or shrunk on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis. The only real
> complexity occurs when you are shrinking a filesystem - you have to locat
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On Friday, 25 June 1999 at 18:22:19 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
>> project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
>> to be grow
> I agree with the approach. But why write a simplistic volume manager
> when we already have vinum?
vinum is far from simplistic, but I suppose it might also do. :)
Still, it would someday be nice if you could use vinum as the very
powerful swiss-army knife that it currently is OR as a dull axe
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:00:41PM -0700, Aaron Smith wrote:
> anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
>
I wrote one.
It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition.
There is still one big problem
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:15:01PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
> :
> :aaron
>
> It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
> project if
According to Bernd Walter:
> I wrote one.
> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition.
Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :)
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:35:54AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>
> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
> version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has now grown an LVM
> system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've been told yesterday duri
> > Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
> > version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has now grown an LVM
> > system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've been told yesterday
> > during
> > a small conference about Linux and free software i
On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 9:33:09 +0200, sth...@nethelp.no wrote:
>>> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
>>> version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has now grown an LVM
>>> system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've been told yesterda
there are several
greg lehey has been collecting them.
julian
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Aaron Smith wrote:
> anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
>
> aaron
>
>
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:anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
:
:aaron
It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
to be grown or
> :anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
> :
> :aaron
>
> It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
> project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
>
> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
> project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
> to be grown or shrunk on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis. The only real
> complexity occurs when you are shrinking a filesystem - you have to locat
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On Friday, 25 June 1999 at 18:22:19 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
>> project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
>> to be gro
> I agree with the approach. But why write a simplistic volume manager
> when we already have vinum?
vinum is far from simplistic, but I suppose it might also do. :)
Still, it would someday be nice if you could use vinum as the very
powerful swiss-army knife that it currently is OR as a dull ax
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:00:41PM -0700, Aaron Smith wrote:
> anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
>
I wrote one.
It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition.
There is still one big proble
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:15:01PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
> :
> :aaron
>
> It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
> project if
According to Bernd Walter:
> I wrote one.
> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition.
Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:35:54AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>
> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
> version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has now grown an LVM
> system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've been told yesterday dur
> > Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
> > version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has now grown an LVM
> > system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've been told yesterday during
> > a small conference about Linux and free software in Fr
On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 9:33:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the derivative
>>> version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has now grown an LVM
>>> system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've been told yesterd
On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Bernd Walter:
>> I wrote one.
>> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
>> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition.
>
> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (
On Friday, 25 June 1999 at 23:53:50 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> I agree with the approach. But why write a simplistic volume manager
>> when we already have vinum?
>
> vinum is far from simplistic, but I suppose it might also do. :)
>
> Still, it would someday be nice if you could use vinum
On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Bernd Walter:
>> I wrote one.
>> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
>> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition.
>
> Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux
On Friday, 25 June 1999 at 23:53:50 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> I agree with the approach. But why write a simplistic volume manager
>> when we already have vinum?
>
> vinum is far from simplistic, but I suppose it might also do. :)
>
> Still, it would someday be nice if you could use vinu
> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything
> but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider:
>
> vinum -i /dev/something volumename
>
> Where does it insert it? What if the volume has more than one plex,
> which it will in the case of a mirror?
OK,
On Thursday, 8 July 1999 at 18:52:41 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything
>> but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider:
>>
>> vinum -i /dev/something volumename
>>
>> Where does it insert it? What if the vo
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > According to Bernd Walter:
> >> I wrote one.
> >> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
> >> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of t
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > I think one of the difficulty of growing a FS is that you have to
> > choose whether you need the FS to be contiguous or not. The latter
> > case makes it much more di
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > According to Bernd Walter:
> >> I wrote one.
> >> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
> >> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > I think one of the difficulty of growing a FS is that you have to
> > choose whether you need the FS to be contiguous or not. The latter
> > case makes it much more d
> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything
> but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider:
>
> vinum -i /dev/something volumename
>
> Where does it insert it? What if the volume has more than one plex,
> which it will in the case of a mirror?
OK
On Thursday, 8 July 1999 at 18:52:41 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> I think you'll find, once you get that far, that things are anything
>> but trivial. I'm certainly open to suggestions, but consider:
>>
>> vinum -i /dev/something volumename
>>
>> Where does it insert it? What if the v
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