Re: [HEADS-UP] growfs port for ffs2 and ffs1

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:13:29 +0200
Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> >> I have ported growfs tool from FreeBSD to NetBSD I have done some tests 
> >> with LVM partition and resizing ffs1 and ffs2 volumes with growfs seems to 
> >> work very well. I would like to see more testing before I import it to 
> >> base tree. If anyone has some big fs wich can be used for testing or has 
> >> LVM setup it would be great to give it a try.
> >> 
> >> Current growfs port source code can be found at [1]. I have found that I 
> >> haven't used latest growfs code, I will try to update current port to 
> >> FreeBSD HEAD today.
> > 
> > I have updated my growfs sources to current FreeBSD HEAD ones with fix for 
> > freebsd pr bin/115174. You can find latest sources here [1].
> 
> I have been testing growfs in a loop for some time now (ffs1, ffs2, wapbl) 
> and everything works fine, I will commit this during weekend if there are no 
> real objections. 

if it works, we shall have it

> Existence of resize_ffs which was never included to build and can't resize 
> ffs2 file system can't be considered as issue. 

agree, bitrotten software shouldnt be a real reason against growfs, the need to
shrink is much less like anyway.

> 
> If anyone cares I have been running small script which was basically doing 
> this
> 
> lvm lvresize
> fsck
> growfs
> fsck
> check md5 sums of files on fs and create new ones.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Adam.
> 


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