XFS shrinking planned?

[Spelic]

On 28/10/2014 18:39, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Not formally planned, there are bits and pieces out there (i.e. the inode
> mover) which are part of what it might take to achieve a shrinker.
>
> Another option, rather than fs shrinking, is to use the dm-thinp target, which
> would allow you to allocate a large-but-sparse block device, create a very
> large filesystem on that, and add or remove storage as needed.
> (At least I think you can remove it...!)
>
> -Eric

Thanks for your reply Eric

Interesting technique, but for enforcing a maximum size (smaller than 
the very large allocated thin device) I would have to rely on quotas, 
which probably decreases performance.
Then using thinp would mess up all the disk layout, basically replacing 
the XFS allocator, which most likely would decrease performances 
significantly.
And then the thinp code itself is a medium performance thing and I don't 
think it can keep up with XFS performances, so that would presumably be 
a hard bottleneck.
All this would result in a performance almost certainly lower than ext4.

Thanks
S.