Re: (reiserfs) Re: LVM / Filesystems / High availability

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:33:04 +1200


On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 08:15:07PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> The plan is to eventually add kernel support for moving the location of
> data blocks of a file, and given an inode number and all of the
> directories in which that inode appears, move an inode to another
> location on disk. This would allow a user-mode program to be able to do
> on-line resizing at some point in the future.

I think this is how defragmenters and such like work with NT4. I might even
have docs on it somewhere...

-Chris

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