Re: Shrinking an XFS filesystem is a crucial feature!

[Michael Stone <mstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:41:17PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> That said, I was merely trying to offer what I believe the target
> audience will want. It seems that the target audience would be those
> using Veritas and the like. Sorry for rubbing you the wrong way, I don't

As a counterpoint, I'd consider at least part of the target audience to
be people who need really big, really fast filesystems. In that audience
there's not a lot of demand for shrinking: people want as much space as
possible, usually in really big chunks. The space is allocated carefully
so partitions are aligned across very large disk arrays in order to
maximize performance.  If you shrink your volume you're going to lose
that alignment.

-- 
Mike Stone