[dm-devel] generic wrappers for multi-device FS operations

Josef Bacik josef at redhat.com
Tue Mar 8 18:37:10 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:05:40AM -0800, Wendy Cheng wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:04:25PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> >> To make this trivial to do for users, I think that it would be really
> >> nice to have a two-level wrappers for things like resize, add a volume,
> >> shrink, etc. Similar to the way we have mount or fsck invoke file system
> >> specific bits.
> >> Good idea? Bad idea?
> >
> 
> So the "resize" is on the filesystem, not the volume ? The "grow" part
> is probably easy. Unfortunately, the "shrink" may not be easy for some
> of the filesystems:
>

Who wants to make their fs smaller anyway?  ;)

Josef 




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