From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: christophe varoqui Subject: Re: LUN resizing Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:29:19 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1070058559.7265.79.camel@zezette> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp8.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.23]:48321 "EHLO mwinf0803.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263510AbTK1W3X (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:29:23 -0500 Received: from AAmiens-106-1-30-29.w81-248.abo.wanadoo.fr (AAmiens-106-1-30-29.w81-248.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.248.163.29]) by mwinf0803.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id EE2C718000E8 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:29:21 +0100 (CET) List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > 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