>>> You have an application filesystem from one LUN. (vxfs is expensive,
>>> ufs/svm is not really able
to handle online filesystem increase. Thus we plan to use zfs for application
filesystems.)
>
>>What do you mean by "not really"?
>...
>>Use growfs to grow UFS on the grown device.
>
>I know its off-toopic but the statement: " growfs will ``write-lock''
> (see lockfs(1M)) a mounted filesystem when expanding. " made me
>always uncomfortable with this online expansion. I cannot guarantee how a
>specific application will behave during the expansion.
-w
Write-lock (wlock) the specified file-system. wlock
suspends writes that would modify the file system.
Access times are not kept while a file system is write-
locked.
All the applications trying to write will suspend. What would be the
risk of that?
Casper
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