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From: christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LUN resizing
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:29:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1070058559.7265.79.camel@zezette> (raw)



> The problem you are trying to solve has three components:
> 
> 1. Filesystem resize
> 2. parition resize
> 3. SCSI device resize
> 
> 1 and 3 are solved (for a subset of fs).  A solution to 2 is to use the
> Linux device mapper (a mini volume manager) to replace the use of
> gendisk partitions.  Then your entire stack constructed this way will be
> resizable.

Yes, this idea is floating around :
See the dmpartx post covered at http://lwn.net/Articles/13958/

May be someone (Andries B) will get something like that in initramfs for
2.7 ...

regards,
cvaroqui


             reply	other threads:[~2003-11-28 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-28 22:29 christophe varoqui [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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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