From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stefan Voelkel <Stefan.Voelkel@millenux.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: LUN resizing
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:48:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126094804.A2717@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069839911.26091.443.camel@lt-sv>; from Stefan.Voelkel@millenux.com on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:45:11AM +0100
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:45:11AM +0100, Stefan Voelkel wrote:
> * a way to force the scsi stack to send out a read_capacity and
> act on it (perhaps another /sys/ entry?), perhaps a hotplug
> event that creates a new partition table, eg add the new space
> as "unused" at the end of the device, write that table and
> ioctl() to reread it.
> * a way to fiddle around with live partitions, a userspace tool
> with a way to tell the kernel supsend/reactivate io on that
> block device. it would have to take care of the filesystems
> residing on the device.
No way. You're better of using a proper volume manager instead of doing
this paritioning mess.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-25 9:34 LUN resizing Stefan Voelkel
2003-11-25 15:43 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-25 16:11 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-26 9:45 ` Stefan Voelkel
2003-11-26 9:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-11-28 10:08 ` Stefan Voelkel
2003-11-28 10:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-28 16:18 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-25 19:34 ` Lincoln Dale
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2003-11-28 22:29 christophe varoqui
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