Re: looking for open tasks

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> The implementation of the required interface is missing for BFS 
> (which would 
> be the FS in question), but the code to initialize a partition is 
> already all 
> there. So that's a minor task. Interesting would be resizing, though, 
> at 
> least increasing the size while not mounted. Don't know how much work 
> that 
> would be; Axel can tell, I suppose.

Resizing/shrinking BFS is lots of work. Especially if you wanted to do 
it while being mounted :-)
Furthermore, when changing the size of a BFS volume, you couldn't keep 
all inodes constant which means some stored entry_refs might become 
invalid.

Anyway, the first thing one would have to do is to add a way to move a 
file and its contents to some other location. When you've done that, 
all other tasks will be much simpler.
Resizing a volume would also be simplified if you have some constraints 
on the new size, ie. you could not allow to change the size of the 
allocation groups; if you only change the number of them, the whole 
thing would be much easier to do.

Bye,
   Axel.


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