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They almost certainly don't want to deal with races involving incoming data and a request to decrease storage volume.
by nordsieck 10y ago
They almost certainly don't want to deal with races involving incoming data and a request to decrease storage volume.
- boulos 10y agoThat's almost right. Most modern filesystems are okay with resizing upwards, but very unprepared for downwards (even when lots of bytes are not yet touched!). So it's really just the "restriction" from GCE that comes from "normal file systems don't like this". Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud, but I'm not a filesystem expert.