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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:49:47 -0700
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On 07/20/2010 11:29 AM, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:37:51AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>  =20
>> On 07/20/2010 10:28 AM, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
>>    =20
>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:01:20PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>>  =20
>>>      =20
>>>> On 03/18/2010 01:28 PM, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>>>>    =20
>>>>        =20
>>>>> The attached patch supports dynamic resizing of vbds. This patch fi=
xes a bug in the previous version of this patch that was sent out. With t=
his patch you can perform "online" resizing of  file systems that support=
 online resizing.
>>>>>   =20
>>>>>      =20
>>>>>          =20
>>>> Please send a delta against the previous patch, since it has already=
 =20
>>>> been applied.
>>>>
>>>>    =20
>>>>        =20
>>> Btw dynamic vbd resize is something we should get into mainline Linux=
..
>>>  =20
>>>      =20
>> Good point.  I created a branch called "upstream/blkfront" with a
>> candidate set of blkfront changes to send.  Could you test it out?
>>
>>    =20
> Sure. I can test it tomorrow.
>  =20

Thanks.

> it seems xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch already has these patches=20
> so dom0 side is easy for the test..
>
> should I try the blkfront patches against the latest Linus git tree, or=
 2.6.34, or ?
>  =20

That branch, upstream/blkfront, is rebased onto v2.6.34, so you can test
it as-is, or merge it into the current linux-2.6 branch (which is a
clean merge).

    J