RE: [Evms-devel] EVMS and Drive Linking

[Stian B. B. <st...@ba...>]

[snip]

Don Mulvey wrote:

>When trying to shrink ... you right clicked on the DL object ... right?
>It should have listed the shrink action.  Was the DL volume =
(/dev/evms/ld)
>still mounted? Shrinking must be offline.  I would have unmounted the
>volume and shrunk the volume down to just the 1st disk. Then I'd add
>replacement disks and expand the volume.

It does give me a shrink actions. No problem, and my volume is indeed =
not
mounted. When I do try a shrink action I have 3 disks (aprox 2gb pr disk =
and
5,4gb of data) and I get the option to shring by the disk nr. 3 or the
placeholder. If I click to shrink with the disk then it's ok, but if I =
click
the placeholder I get an error like "not allowed" though I have not the
console here so the message was probably exactly those words, but =
similar.
After the error the placeholder was unselected again.

[snip]

>I am still wondering if you tried the shrink with /dev/evms/ld =
unmounted.
>Seems to me like ext and reiser both allow shrinking.  If they could =
pack
>data onto the first drive then you should have been able to recover =
either
>fs by: shrinking the fs, replacing disks and expanding the fs.

Yes. This would have been the best. First shrink by the placeholder, now =
I
should have a nice volume that I could fsck, then I could expand to
accommodate my data again. But as I explain over this did not work!

>>Now I am wondering whether to take the chance, or not. If I take the
>>chance
>>then I need to set up AES-loop encryption. This will be cool to! :)

>Thanks for trying things out!

No problem. A friend of mine said that I was the perfect beta tester. If
something can break I will break it, and he is basically right. And .. I
often try things no-one else does ... :)=20

-stian