On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:52:17 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. > > > > Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find > > yourself in, as I did recently. > > Yes, this might happen. How often does it, though?
Twice last year, how many times is acceptable? > >> What's so special about XFS? The fact that there's no shrinker? > > > > Yes, so a matter of seconds turns into the time it takes to backup, > > Shrinking is never a matter of seconds :) Not with reiserfs and > especially not with ext2/ext3. But with those filesystems, > shrinking is at least possible. OK, quite a few seconds :) -- Neil Bothwick Strike any user to continue
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