On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 08:09 -0600, cwillu wrote: > >> If I understand correctly, if I don't use LVM, then such move and resize > >> operations can't be done for an online filesystem and it has more risk. > > > > You can resize, add, and remove devices from btrfs online without the > > need for LVM. IIRC LVM has finer granularity though, you can do > > something like "move only the first 10GB now, I'll move the rest > > later". > > You can certainly resize the filesystem itself, but without lvm I > don't believe you can resize the underlying partition online.
There are actually some patches floating around that will allow partitions (MBR/GPT) to be resized online, I think they're queued up to be included in some upcoming linux release: http://lwn.net/Articles/481141/ You still can't move partitions online, of course. -- Calvin Walton <[email protected]> -- 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
