On 07/19/2012 09:44 PM, Sébastien Han wrote: > With LVM, you can re-scan the scsi bus to extend a physical drive and > then run a pvextend. > > @Calvin: I tried your solution > > # partprobe /dev/rbd1 Did you try blockdev? # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/rbd1 Regards, Andreas > > Unfortunatly nothing changed. > > Did you make it working? > > Cheers! > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Sébastien Han <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hum ok, I see. Thanks! >> >> But if you have any clue to force the kernel to re-read without >> unmont/mounting :) >> >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 19-07-12 17:26, Sébastien Han wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok I got your point seems logic, but why is this possible with LVM for >>>> example? >>>> >>>> You can easily do this with LVM without un-mounting the device. >>>> >>> >>> >>> LVM runs through the device mapper and are not regular block devices. >>> >>> If you resize the disk underneath LVM you won't see an increased VG or PV >>> size unless you change the availability of the VG to unavailable and back to >>> available again. >>> >>> I'm not a 100% sure what the exact root cause is, but the kernel won't read >>> the new size of a block device as long as it is in use. >>> >>> Wido >>> >>> >>> >>>> Cheers. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxxx> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 19-07-12 16:55, Sébastien Han wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Cephers! >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm working with rbd mapping. I figured out that the block device size >>>>>> of the rbd device is not update while the device is mounted. Here my >>>>>> tests: >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> iirc this is not something RBD specific, but since the device is in use >>>>> it >>>>> can't be re-read by the kernel. >>>>> >>>>> So when you unmount it the kernel can re-read the header and resize the >>>>> device. >>>>> >>>>> Wido >>>>> >>>>>> 1. Pick up a device and check his size >>>>>> >>>>>> # rbd ls >>>>>> size >>>>>> >>>>>> # rbd info test >>>>>> rbd image 'test': >>>>>> size 10000 MB in 2500 objects >>>>>> order 22 (4096 KB objects) >>>>>> block_name_prefix: rb.0.6 >>>>>> parent: (pool -1) >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. Map the device >>>>>> >>>>>> # rbd map --secret /etc/ceph/secret test >>>>>> # rbd showmapped >>>>>> id pool image snap device >>>>>> 1 rbd test - /dev/rbd1 >>>>>> >>>>>> 3. Put a fs on it and check the block device size >>>>>> >>>>>> # mkfs.ext4 /dev/rdb1 >>>>>> ... >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>> # fdisk -l /dev/rbd1 >>>>>> >>>>>> Disk /dev/rbd1: 10.5 GB, 10485760000 bytes >>>>>> >>>>>> 4. Mount it >>>>>> >>>>>> # mount /dev/rbd1 /mnt >>>>>> # df -h >>>>>> /dev/rbd1 9.8G 277M 9.0G 3% /mnt >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 5. Change the image size >>>>>> >>>>>> # rbd resize --size 11000 test >>>>>> Resizing image: 100% complete...done. >>>>>> >>>>>> # rbd info test >>>>>> rbd image 'test': >>>>>> size 11000 MB in 2750 objects >>>>>> order 22 (4096 KB objects) >>>>>> block_name_prefix: rb.0.6 >>>>>> parent: (pool -1) >>>>>> >>>>>> At this point of time, if you perform the fdisk -l /dev/rbd1, the >>>>>> block device size will remain the same. >>>>>> >>>>>> 6. Unmount the device: >>>>>> >>>>>> # umount /media >>>>>> >>>>>> # fdisk -l /dev/rbd1 >>>>>> Disk /dev/rbd1: 11.5 GB, 11534336000 bytes >>>>>> >>>>>> Unmounting the directory did update the block device size. >>>>>> >>>>>> Of course you can do something really fast like: >>>>>> >>>>>> # umount /media && mount /dev/rbd1 /media >>>>>> >>>>>> That will work, it's a valid solution as long as there is no opened >>>>>> file. I won't use this trick in production... >>>>>> >>>>>> I also tried to "mount -o remount" and it didn't work. >>>>>> >>>>>> 7. Resize the fs (this can be performed while the fs is mounted): >>>>>> >>>>>> # e2fsck -f /dev/rbd1 >>>>>> e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) >>>>>> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes >>>>>> Pass 2: Checking directory structure >>>>>> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity >>>>>> Pass 4: Checking reference counts >>>>>> Pass 5: Checking group summary information >>>>>> /dev/rbd1: 11/644640 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 77173/2560000 blocks >>>>>> >>>>>> # resize2fs /dev/rbd1 >>>>>> resize2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) >>>>>> Resizing the filesystem on /dev/rbd1 to 2816000 (4k) blocks. >>>>>> The filesystem on /dev/rbd1 is now 2816000 blocks long. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Did I miss something? >>>>>> Is this feature coming? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you in advance :) >>>>>> -- >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in >>>>>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>>>>> >>>>> >>> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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