From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: online disk resizing
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:19:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468DDEEC.1030701@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7531FC6D348A2F4A9670BBC9BCB3250802B3E2ED@cm050024.europede.psinet.dc>
Roland Mieslinger wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com
>> [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Benaguev
>> Sent: Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 16:20
>> To: device-mapper development
>> Subject: Re: [dm-devel] online disk resizing
>>
>> Roland Mieslinger wrote:
>>> Did you get a error from blockdev command?
>> none
>>> Did you stop all I/O to the device?
>> I can't!=) it's not online resizing, if I should stoping io;(
>
> That's were i stuck too.
> You can do it without reboot, but I've found no way to do it online.
>
As already said: online resizing only works if there are _no_ references
to that device. Ie no device-mapper tables referencing it etc.
Otherwise any block device updates will be rejected by the kernel.
Cheers,
Hannes
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.0.1183628608.29322.dm-devel@redhat.com>
2007-07-05 9:54 ` RE: online disk resizing Raayman, Sebastian
2007-07-05 12:43 ` Alexander Benaguev
2007-07-05 12:56 ` Kevin Foote
2007-07-05 13:15 ` Roland Mieslinger
2007-07-05 14:08 ` Alexander Benaguev
2007-07-05 14:15 ` Roland Mieslinger
2007-07-05 14:19 ` Alexander Benaguev
2007-07-05 14:22 ` Roland Mieslinger
2007-07-05 14:26 ` Kevin Foote
2007-07-06 6:19 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2007-07-04 17:16 Alexander Benaguev
2007-07-05 7:31 ` Roland Mieslinger
2007-07-05 7:33 ` Hannes Reinecke
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