This isn't something we test here, but in theory it should work. The OST object ids have nothing to do with the on-disk inode numbers, so inode renumbering during the resize shouldn't cause any Lustre-visible issues.
I would recommend to do a raw copy of the OST filesystem, find some files with inode numbers in the part of the filesystem that will be removed, run a full e2fsck, resize, run another full e2fsck and then validate the data and xattrs in some of the files that were moved. Cheers, Andreas On 2010-07-20, at 11:02, Gizo Nanava <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > is it possible to resize(shrink) OST partition(etx3) without > damaging files there? > According to documentation of 1.6 version, as it seems it is not possible, > but maybe the current versions support it? > > > Thank you for any information. > Best wishes, Gizo Nanava > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
