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From: pack@acd.uucp (Daniel Packman)
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Subject: Journaled File System [was Re: AIX vs standard unix]
Summary: When will we
Keywords: JFS
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Date: 11 Jun 91 14:46:57 GMT
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drake@ibm.com writes:
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>...
>Well, there are tradeoffs in everything.  For many people, the idea that
>you can expand filesystems dynamically into any unused disk space on any
>drive is a Big Win...
>
>
The ability to expand into unused space is not as useful as it could be
if you cannot easily *shrink* filesystems as well.  Few of us have the
luxury of having lots of unused disk space waiting around just for the
flexability of exanding a filesystem.  I understand this ability to
shrink filesystems will be in a future AIX release.

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