On Apr 30, 2007 08:09 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:09:42PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
I'd prefer that such functionality be integrated with Takashi's online
defrag tool, since it needs virtually the same functionality. For that
matter, this is also very similar
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:01:42AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
Except one other issue with online shrinking is that we need to move
inodes on occasion and this poses a bunch of other problems over just
remapping the data blocks.
Well, I did say necessary, and not sufficient. But yes, moving
On May 01, 2007 11:28 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:01:42AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
Except one other issue with online shrinking is that we need to move
inodes on occasion and this poses a bunch of other problems over just
remapping the data blocks.
Well, I
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:52:49PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
I think rm -r does a LOT of this kind of operation, like:
stat(.); stat(foo); chdir(foo); stat(.); unlink(*); chdir(..); stat(.)
I think find does the same to avoid security problems with malicious
path manipulation.
Yep, so
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:09:42PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
I'd prefer that such functionality be integrated with Takashi's online
defrag tool, since it needs virtually the same functionality. For that
matter, this is also very similar to the block-mapped - extents tool
from Aneesh. It
