Re: [PATCH v3] Btrfs-progs: add feature to get mininum size for resizing a fs/device

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 04:47:13PM +0100, fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently there is not way for a user to know what is the minimum size a
> device of a btrfs filesystem can be resized to. Sometimes the value of
> total allocated space (sum of all allocated chunks/device extents), which
> can be parsed from 'btrfs filesystem show' and 'btrfs filesystem usage',
> works as the minimum size, but sometimes it does not, namely when device
> extents have to relocated to holes (unallocated space) within the new
> size of the device (the total allocated space sum).
> 
> This change adds the ability to reliably compute such minimum value and
> extents 'btrfs filesystem resize' with the following syntax to get such
> value:
> 
>    btrfs filesystem resize [devid:]get_min_size
> 
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks. As mentioned before, the preferred interface is
'inspect-internal'. I've named the command 'min-dev-size' and added
optional arugment --id as replacement for the original resize syntax.
(It's a simple getopt stub so I'm not posting the patch.)
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