HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

[Michael Neumann]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Ok, I think I'll need clarification on another 2 things: 1) how easy will it 
:be in production HAMMER  to expand/shrink filesystems: ie. /home is running 
:out of space, so i buy an additional drive and will want /home volume to 
:expand over the driver. Or, I made /var too big initially and i'll want to 
:shrink it to half the size and use the space for /usr.

    That will be easy.  The blockmap makes it easy.  HAMMER will be able to
    move physical big-blocks around on a whim.
That's one of the biggest reasons why I'd like to use it (next to 
keeping history).
It's so nice in ZFS to just don't care how large your partitions are 
initially, as you can increase them so easily.

Regards,

  Michael