Resize HAMMER filesystem

[Alex Burke]

Hi Matt,

Hope you will forgive a potentially silly question, but how do you perceive
the relationship between HAMMER1 and HAMMER2 in the future? Will the second
incarnation entirely supersede and replace the original?

At the point at which HAMMER2 is released, is it your intention that people
automatically upgrade older HAMMER to it? The feature set is certainly
compelling!

I ask because I saw a few messages per the past 6 months or so where people
were talking about perhaps contributing fixes to the utilities e.g. the
PFS softlink handling and I wondered what your feeling were about effort
being spent in that direction.

Thanks, Alex J Burke.

On Friday, 3 May 2013, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     HAMMER1 has a number of deficiencies in this area.  It is possible
>     to add additional block devices to a HAMMER1 filesystem but it's never
>     been well tested and I don't recommend it.
>
>     HAMMER1's best feature is mirror-copy and mirror-stream.  There are
>     deficiencies here as well, particularly the issue with the root
>     filesystem not being a PFS.  Mirroring slaves can be upgraded to
> masters
>     but they cannot be downgraded again, so their best use is to track
>     near real-time backups.
>
>     Snapshots also work extremely well and the fine-grained history works
>     quite well too.
>
>     The multi-volume feature doesn't work as well as we would like, and
>     HAMMER1 doesn't have any redundancy so if you lose a HD that filesystem
>     is basically dead (would have to be rebuilt from one of the mirror
>     slaves being used as a backup).
>
>     HAMMER2 will solve a lot of these problems.  HAMMER2 has a 'super-root'
>     directory level above the root mount so mount points are basically just
>     PFS's, including the root mount.  Snapshots are writable, and there
> will
>     be a copies mechanism that treats multiple volumes as separate logical
>     filesystems (i.e. real redundancy), and will also be able to take on
> the
>     duty of adding/removing storage from a live filesystem.
>
>     HAMMER2 is not even remotely close to being production ready yet
> though.
>
>     At this point in time I am only doing minor maintainance work on
> HAMMER1.
>     All my efforts are going into HAMMER2.
>
>                                                 -Matt
>
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