Re: resizing mounted filesystems

2002-11-08 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:05:13PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Lukas Ertl wrote: how hard would it be to implement resizing of mounted filesystems? Currently, growfs requires the filesystem to be unmounted, and this is definitely a showstopper for FreeBSD when it comes to production use.

Re: resizing mounted filesystems

2002-11-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Bernd Walter wrote: Nearly impossible, without a JFS. You would need to be able to add new PP's to an LP, as you can do on AIX, or assign PP's to a hog partition, and them provide each LP with hog limits, so that they can allocate PP's to themselves automatically, as needed, up to some

resizing mounted filesystems

2002-11-07 Thread Lukas Ertl
Hi hackers, how hard would it be to implement resizing of mounted filesystems? Currently, growfs requires the filesystem to be unmounted, and this is definitely a showstopper for FreeBSD when it comes to production use. I'd really like to promote FreeBSD more in my organisation, where we

Re: resizing mounted filesystems

2002-11-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Lukas Ertl wrote: how hard would it be to implement resizing of mounted filesystems? Currently, growfs requires the filesystem to be unmounted, and this is definitely a showstopper for FreeBSD when it comes to production use. I'd really like to promote FreeBSD more in my organisation, where