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

[Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> Its a little more complex than that, when you grow, you add empty space to
> the fs, when you shrink, you have to move files out of the space being
> removed.
> 
> [.......]
> 
> Not quite just the reverse of adding more free space ;-)
> 
> Steve
> 

Ahem, yes, uh, I imagined the space would be empty (magically). I'll
make one more try, however: based on the model of xfs_fsr, couldn't the
files (not the dirs) be moved in other AGs? This of course would leave
the directories and maybe the inodes in the to-be-freed AGs. Just a
mental exercise :)

Thanks for the nice explanation.


Iustin Pop