Subject: Re: resize_ffs (was: Re: JFS)
To: Brian Chase <email@example.com>
From: Christoph Hellwig <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 02/25/2003 20:34:20
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:37:04AM -0800, Brian Chase wrote:
> of servers I've managed. In the case of XFS under IRIX, the xfs_growfs
> man page states that "the filesytem must be mounted to be grown."
> I can't imagine why that must be the case.
You could just read the xfs_growfs source and see :)
The actual resizing is performed in the kernel XFS driver and xfs_growfs
isn't doing a lot more than calling a bunch of fcntls (IRIX) or
ioctls(Linux) that perform the actual resize in a way that it is journaled
like other filesystem transactions.
Christoph Hellwig email@example.com
SGI Storage Software - XFS for Linux firstname.lastname@example.org