On Monday 26 April 2010 16:48:09 B. Alexander wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > On Monday 26 April 2010 16:05:31 B. Alexander wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > > > bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > > > I'm also a current reiser3 user. I find the ability to shrink the > > > > filesystem > > > > to be something I am not willing to do without. > > > > > > You know, I said the same thing, but then as the kernel and GRUB and > > > the like advanced, I noticed that my reiserfs partitions would have to > > > replay the journal every time I rebooted, even after a clean shutdown. > > > > That doesn't seem right. I have been using reiser3 since 2005, and my > > system > > does not require a journal replay if I do a clean shutdown/reboot. A > > forced > > reboot through Alt+SysRq+B does trigger a journal replay (as it should). > > No, this is a result of sync;sync;shutdown -r now. Well, WFM. Do you have a log of the shutdown messages that appear on the console? They might tell us why your filesystem is not getting cleanly re-mounted read-only. > > I also have 4+ tebibytes but most of them are allocated to filesystems. > > I've > > had to shrink filesystems dozens of times since 2005, during or after a > > data > > move. > > I've had to extend on the fly many more times than I have had to reduce. Yes. Many, many more times. A filesystem that can't grow is beyond useless for me. Luckily btrfs support growing and shrinking and it can do both while mounted. On-line shrinking is a trick I couldn't get reiser3 to perform. > > I'm hoping to be able to move that onto LVM once I move to > > GRUB2 and GPT. > > You know, /boot on bare drive has never bothered me, especially since I use > encrypted filesystems on everything but VMs. On laptops, I had it set up so > /boot lived on a thumb drive...So I'm cool with it. Well, I will still have to have a "partition" for GRUB to embed stage 1.5 if I go with GPT. However, it won't contain files per se. I like having as much as possible on LVM because it makes it easier to migrate to new storage media and retire the old media. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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