Chris Mason wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 05:42:00PM +0900, Donggeun Kim wrote: >> In some cases, resizing a file system to the maximum device size is required. >> When flashing a file system image to a block device, >> the file system does not fit into the block device's size. >> Currently, executing 'btrfsctl' application is the only way >> to grow the file system to the limit of the device. >> If the mount option which alters the device size of a file system >> to the limit of the device is supported, >> it can be useful regardless of the existence of 'btrfsctl' program. >> This patch allows the file system to grow to the maximum size of the device >> on mount time. >> The new mount option name is 'maxsize'. > > I think this is a very useful feature, but could you please change the > patch to allow controlling which device is resized? > > The ioctl allows you to pass in a device number (where the number comes > from btrfs-show) > > Thanks! > > -chris > I'm sorry not to fully understand your comment. Do you mean that device file name for being resized is specified after 'maxsize' mount option? e.g) #mount -o maxsize=/dev/sda1 ...
Thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
