Hi Sonny,
A small portion of the hard disk is used for the journal. In the event of a
crash the journal can be accessed to undo partial changes and put the
partition back to a clean state. All these technologies are designed for
data security and so that you no longer have to worry about file system
maintenance. Space reserved for the journal would not keep growing until you
ran out of space.
If you are a newbie to Linux my advice would be to stay as close to a
standard install as possible and start using journaling when it becomes
supported by your favourite distribution.
Regards,
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of smounico@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, 7 February 2001 5:47 p.m.
To: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: xfs growth?
I apologize for the newbie question but I've parsed the mailing list and I
can't seem to find an answer. If xfs continuously grows (more space
taken per file) due to the journaling, and there is no xfs_shrink ( I saw
the posts on the list), will my filesystem continue to fill so much so
that eventually, I will run out of space? Is the only way around this to
perform an xfs_dump and restore?
Thanks
Sonny
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