On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Bernd Walter: > >> I wrote one. > >> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs > >> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition. > > > > Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the > > derivative version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has > > now grown an LVM system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've > > been told yesterday during a small conference about Linux and free > > software in France (and where I did a talk about FreeBSD *grin*). > > Interesting. If you find any pointers, I'd like to take a look.
http://linux.msede.com/lvm/ -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > Looks like this is a case where Linux is following FreeBSD :-) > > > I think one of the difficulty of growing a FS is that you have to > > choose whether you need the FS to be contiguous or not. The latter > > case makes it much more difficult... > > Why shouldn't it be contiguous? That's what the volume manager's > there for. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger [email protected] for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
