On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hey folks, I was hoping to be able to use xfs on top of RBD for a > deployment of mine. And was hoping for the resize of the RBD > (expansion, actually, would be my use case) in the future to be as > simple as a "resize on the fly", followed by an 'xfs_growfs'.' > > I just found a recent post, though > (http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2013-June/002425.html), > that seems to indicate that what I have in mind may not be possible? > is this true? Do I have to unmount the system (or worse, do a reboot?) > before I can do an effective resize? > another question that just came to mind: would you recommend skipping partitioning, and then making an xfs out of the entire drive? I'm just thinking how you would have to deal with partitioning upon an RBD resize. -jf -- He who settles on the idea of the intelligent man as a static entity only shows himself to be a fool. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." --Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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