> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:28:26 -0500 (CDT), Shawn Leas
> <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com> said:
>
> > An LV is a device that will grow/shrink transparently to the FS.
> > ... There are rules regarding growing/shrinking that make it trivial
> > for an FS to support it.
>
> I repeat (and it's getting very repetitive...)
>
> It is *NOT* trivial to extend an ext2fs filesystem, even at the end,
> by more than about 256MB. There are fundamental properties about the
Sorry, I should have said "relatively". I saw the other mail from ya. I
was thinking in terms of ease as opposed to the warped idea of LVM/FS
cooperation some poeple were having. ie: FS -> mind-meld with LVM in
order to be happy. I did not mean to trivialize the task, again, sorry.
-Shawn
> location of group descriptor blocks which make this unavoidable given
> the current fs layout on disk. Any significant stretching of the
> filesystem requires internal reallocation of data blocks and/or inode
> blocks. It is a dangerous myth that this action is simple.
>
> --Stephen
>
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