Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists

["Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky telemetry-investments com>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:43:30AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> - online filesystem resizing (shrinking & expansion)

Shrinking is difficult -- once a resource is reachable, one must
keep track of who is using it.  One will also need a disk
defragmenter. [Andrew Morton did have some patches for 2.4 that did
that by providing a "move this file block" feature for Ext3.]

By contrast, adding resources is almost trivial, because nobody
has a reference to it until it is explicitly made visible.

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky