From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Voelkel Subject: Re: LUN resizing Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:08:49 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1069965713.886.38.camel@lt-sv> References: <1069708054.26088.127.camel@lt-sv> <1069774983.2061.28.camel@mulgrave> <1069776713.1787.36.camel@mulgrave> <1069839911.26091.443.camel@lt-sv> <20031126094804.A2717@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9J/tIaEVz/0lcxGAczV6" Return-path: Received: from ping.topalis.com ([195.243.109.4]:32006 "EHLO ping.topalis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262106AbTK1KJK (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2003 05:09:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031126094804.A2717@infradead.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: James Bottomley , SCSI Mailing List --=-9J/tIaEVz/0lcxGAczV6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. >=20 > No way. You're better of using a proper volume manager instead of doing > this paritioning mess. True, let's forget about the partitions: mount /dev/sda /home.=20 --=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefan V=F6lkel stefan.voelkel@millenux.com Millenux GmbH mobile: +49.170.79177.17 Lilienthalstra=DFe 2 phone: +49.711.88770.300 70825 Stuttgart-Korntal fax: +49.711.88770.349 -=3D linux without limits -=3D- http://linux.zSeries.org/ =3D- --=-9J/tIaEVz/0lcxGAczV6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/xmGRtWF28C4HGsQRAqcDAJ9ndUrZYaURTzV2fsyBSztgxoJ6iACgvLWG BXeNb+TyGUkOdS7eNiMnitw= =oIyP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9J/tIaEVz/0lcxGAczV6--