Re: looking for open tasks

"François Revol" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
> Wouldn't keeping allocation group size not change inode numbers ?
> IIRC they are formed by (ag << agshift | blocknr) so if agshift 
> doesn't 
> change it should work.
> Appart from the defrag process itself for shrinking of course but 
> that's dead meat.

Yes, that's what I meant. The inodes that were placed beyond the new 
volume bounds would all need to change.

Bye,
   Axel.


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