On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 03:48:18AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 10:20:15AM +0530, Nirjhar Roy (IBM) wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-08-04 at 17:13 +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > I beleive I heard something from someone some time back about work in progress on shrinking xfs filesystems. Is this something that's been worked with or have I been lied to or just had a nice dream? > > > > > > roy > > I have recently posted an RFC[1]. The work is based/inspired from an old RFC[2] by Gao and ideas > > given by Dave Chinner. > > Like the previous attempts it doesn't seem to include an attempt to > address the elephant in the room: moving inodes out of the to be > removed AGs or tail blocks of an AG. Anyone who wants to finish the evacuation part is welcome to pick this up: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/173568777852.2709794.6356870909327619205.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs/ --D
