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
next 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]
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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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