Re: XFS allows expansions, but no contraction?

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:43:16PM -0400, Scott McDermott wrote:
> Andi Kleen on Sat 28/09 02:26 +0200:
> > > Probably an extension of the xfs_fsr approach would be the way to
> > > go. One major issue is it is impossible to do this without changing
> > > inode numbers. Some applications rely on inode numbers remaining a
> > > constant.
> > 
> > But none I know do this over umount/remount (ok except for NFS
> > stateless filehandles, but that can be cured by remounting on the
> > client too) 
> 
> yeah right, you have XFS for /home/ and you want to tell your hundreds
> of LAN clients to remount? That is totally impractical.

/home by definition never shrinks ... 

Also would you prefer to have no shrinking to shrinking with changed inode
numbers ? 

-Andi