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Re: xfs support ?
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: xfs support ? |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:16:14 +1000 |
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Hi Oliver,
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:39:26AM +0200, Oliver Epper wrote:
> I'd like to shrink the xfs partition on my notebook to get
> a little space for a hypernation partition.
> I've seen that parted has no xfs support besides being able
> to detect it.
> Are there any plans to improve the xfs support ? What would
> be the main difficulty, if any ?
I did have a look at this a while ago. FWICT, it would be difficult,
since the XFS implementation depends on kernel stuff. (The userland
library is basically a wrapper for lots of syscalls/ioctls)
Parted doesn't really work through the kernel (there are cache-coherency
and portability issues). So, Parted would need architectural changes to
use the xfs library.
I think there are inherrent problems doing resizing like this... I
should finish my little rant about it. (I've got lots of uni work
ATM :( )
Cheers,
Andrew
- xfs support ?, Oliver Epper, 2002/08/17
- Re: xfs support ?,
Andrew Clausen <=