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Re: [HEADS-UP] growfs port for ffs2 and ffs1



> Can you estimate how much work it would be to add shrinking to
> growfs?

Unless something surprising and unusual was done in either ffsv2 or
growfs, it would be roughly as hard as building a shrink tool starting
with an empty file instead of growfs.  Growing is very easy compared to
shrinking - compare the amount of code in resize_ffs for growing vs
shrinking.  Indeed, resize_ffs was originally going to be just a shrink
tool, but after writing that it became obvious that growing was
basically a trivial add-on to the shrinker.

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