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.
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
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