Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!unido!sapwdf!wohler From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Shrinking Filesystems... is it important? Keywords: AIX jfs filesystem Message-ID: <2867@sapwdf.UUCP> Date: 14 Jun 91 12:44:24 GMT References: <1991Jun12.060212.8037@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: Bill Wohler Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany Lines: 27 shair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair) writes: >While we're talking about dynamically shrinking filesystems, and whether >AIX V3 might someday provide that facility, let me ask a purely >hypothetical question... What's it worth? bob, i can list a couple of examples. if you're installing some software whose size you're not really sure of, you'd want to install it in a *very* large filesystem so you don't have to start from scratch if you run out of room. then, after all is installed, then you can crank the filesystem down to a more reasonable size so you can minimize wasted space. examples might include unix and x. but, here's the golden question. how many times have you wanted to place something in a full filesystem, and instead placed them in other filesystems and referenced them via slimelinks? i would venture the answer is "lots" (i have personally done this hundreds of times in the last few years). wouldn't it have been much more elegant to make that "other" filesystem smaller, then make the target filesystem larger so you could place the software where it belonged in the first place? -- --bw ----- Bill Wohler Heidelberg Red Barons Ultimate Frisbee Team