Re: UFS filesystem size limit

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:49:03AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     There are two things I want for UFS:  (1) Nearly instant reboots
>     (without having to depend on softupdates), and (2) an ability to grow
>     or shrink the filesystem.  Both are quite achievable goals.

The growing part of (a) is already implemented, shrinking is a bit more
involved since you have to relocate stuff in the worst case. That can be
very difficult for the fixed location meta data :-)

Joerg