Re: xfs_shrinkfs ?

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> xfs_fsr already exists right? It would appear that it could be modified
> without too much pain  so that all the free space was contiguous at the
> end of the device. You'd also have to move the inodes from the back-end
> of the device (and hence change the inode numbers) but it would probably
> be a good start.
> 


xfs_fsr just moves extents in a file, all it does is ask the kernel to create
some new extents, and hopes they are more contiguous than the old ones.

This does not give us the control to say 'don't use the end of the disk'.
It also does not deal with directories.

Steve