[dm-devel] generic wrappers for multi-device FS operations

Wendy Cheng s.wendy.cheng at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 18:05:40 UTC 2011


> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:04:25PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>> To make this trivial to do for users, I think that it would be really
>> nice to have a two-level wrappers for things like resize, add a volume,
>> shrink, etc. Similar to the way we have mount or fsck invoke file system
>> specific bits.
>> Good idea? Bad idea?
>

So the "resize" is on the filesystem, not the volume ? The "grow" part
is probably easy. Unfortunately, the "shrink" may not be easy for some
of the filesystems:

-- Wendy




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