> >> People do shrink volumes, and this lack of flexibility is an important >> consideration I feel was ignored in the Server WG decision. > > What is the use case for volume shrinking in a server context? Dual boot is a > total edge case for servers.
I shrink ext4 filesystems on servers pretty frequently. Most recently because: *) Received bad information from an end user which required changing several LVs/FSs. *) An "oops" situation where a filesystem was incorrectly increased by an extra order of magnitude *) Unexpected (e.g. emergency) growth of an application which required increasing a filesystem and shrinking another (lesser) used filesystem. Yes in all three aforementioned cases we had to unmount the ext4 filesystem in order to shrink it, however, we would _not_ have been able to do this with xfs. On a semi related note: I grow/shrink JFS2 filesystems (on AIX) all the time. It would be great if ext4 had online shrink. -Jacob -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
