Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1986 mails)

["Anders Norrbring" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Thursday, 2008-11-27 at 12:20 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote:
>
> > I guess it's like XFS, it cannot be resized, only ext2/3 and ReiserFS
> allows
> > that if I'm not mistaken?
>
> XFS has resize, too. And more: just type "xfs[tab][tab]" on a console
> and
> you will see the tools.
>
> The only combination that gives trouble (and big) is an encripted xfs
> filesystem.
>
> - --
> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.


True that there is a growfs utility, but it doesn't easily shrink.. Not that
it's a big deal really, one can always just make a temporary storage while
deleting/recreating a smaller one. However, that isn't too easy when you
come up in RAID rig sizes.. ;-) Not the case this time though, it's only a
couple of terabytes.

Dave, there _is_ a 16 kVA UPS hooked up, and it does its work just fine..
However, sometimes systems freeze, no matter how limited the number of
processes are.. And when they do, the file system usually ends up slightly
trashed.

Of course there is no thing as a "safe" system that can cover all
situations, but at least one can chose a file system that pretty easily
repairs itself from a mishap. As far as I've seen, both XFS and ReiserFS
recovers just fine, however XFS seems to be a lot slower doing it than
ReiserFS.

Oh well.. I guess this is a never-ending-discussion anyway.. ;-) 

Anders.

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