Re: [Bug 319] New: wishlist: allow shrinking of XFS

[Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:57:38PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 04:50:54PM -0800, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I would like to be able to shrink XFS filesystems.  This is useful
> > for repartitioning or when using a volume management system.
> 
> FWIW this is a fair amount of work and potentially will break some
> things.  I'm not entirely sure it's worth considering as people tend
> to grow filesystems much more often the shrink them.

Couldn't this be implemented by taking offline the last AG(s)? This
would be similar to growing, where you add a (some) new AG(s) and put
the online, just the reverse.


Regards,
Iustin Pop