Subject: Re: dynamically growing ffs
To: Konrad Schroder <perseant@hhhh.org>
From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/14/1999 10:55:13
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Julian Assange wrote:
>
> > Is there anything to prevent someone hacking up fsck_ffs to
> > increase fs->fs_size and everything else that is calculated from it,
> > in order to add addotopma; unstriped ccd or raidframe space?
>
> Is there any reason not to put this functionality into tunefs, rather
> than fsck_ffs?
> Konrad Schroder
> perseant@hhhh.org
The code probably belongs more correctly in newfs. the rewriting
of new cg's etc is complex enough such that it would be wise to
take advantage of code that already understands (fsck_ffs) or does
(newfs_ffs) it.
Cheers,
Julian.