On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:45:32PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:50:51AM -0500, Sonny Rao wrote:
>
> > Yeah, my apologies if this question has been answered before, but as
> > you point out, this is something that is desired by a great many
> > people.
>
> >From what I can tell, it comes up often from people playing with XFS
> on their desktop (because it's cool and has more buzzwords than ext3).
>
> People generally resize to bigger sizes, because they accumulate data
> for various reasons, grow the business or whatever.
>
> I really don't hear many good reasons for shrinking the fs other than
> "I didn't think about the sizes I needed and now /pr0n could really
> use some of the space I'm not using in /var".
>
> I suspect if there was any real commerical interest in this
> (ie. someone would fund it's development) there are about a dozen
> people who could take a crack at this right now.
Sure, I agree with everything you say here. It just bugs me from a
completeness standpoint that XFS and JFS can't do it right now. Call
it an itch.
> > Far be it for me to pertend I understand all of the issues involved,
> > but as a project I'd find it an interesting one to at least work on.
>
> Steve Lord has given a description of what is required somewhere on
> the list. I also have something I made somewhere on how this might be
> done without too many kernel changes.
>
> > Maybe just a "simpler" off-line version would be easier to write,
> > and wouldn't require kernel changes?
>
> My initial thoughts are that would probably be quite a bit harder as
> you would need to use libxfs to do all sorts of fs-magic in userspace
> that we already do in the kernel with pretty well tested code-paths.
>
Cool, I'll search the archives, thanks.
Sonny
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