Re: Block device resize detection

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 06.12.2010 12:29, schrieb Alexander Graf:
> On 06.12.2010, at 11:49, Vandeir Eduardo wrote:
>>
>> I have a KVM guest machine, lets name it VMTEST,
>> using an iSCSI LUN as a virtio device. Something like this:
>>
>> <disk type='block' device='disk'>
>>   <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
>>   <source 
>> dev='/dev/disk/by-path/ip-w.x.y.z:3260-iscsi-iqn.2010-10.br.furb.inf:disk0-lun-4'/>
>>      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
>> </disk>
>>
>> On iSCSI server, if I resize this LUN, this resize is detected
>> on KVM host, but not on the VMTEST. The device resize is only
>> detected if I restart VMTEST. Is there a way to make VMTEST detect
>> the /dev/vda resize without restarting it?
>>
>> On VMTEST I already tried commands like partprobe /dev/vda, 
>> hdparm -z /dev/vda and blockdev --rereadpt /dev/vda, but none of
>> was capable to detect the block device (/dev/vda) resize.
> 
> The probing of an image is only done at initialization time of the block backend driver, which in your case is the bootup. The only chance you have of reevaluating it would be to hot-add another virtio device with the resized image.
> 
> Alternatively, you could also try to write a patch for reevaluation plumbing, so that the hba emulation layer can trigger reevaluation in the disk layer.

This is basically online disk resizing, which we have discussed in the
past and which I think we want to have for virtio-blk eventually, but
currently it's supported neither in the host qemu nor in the guest kernel.

Kevin