Re: xfs growth?

[Drew Bloechl <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:47:11PM -0600, smounico@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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?

What gave you the idea the filesystem continuously grows?  The journal
gets reused and it will never take more space than you've allocated for
it.

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