On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/20/2013 06:56 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > Yes, skip the partitioning, otherwise you will have to expand the partition > first prior to expanding the filesystem. > > I also just did a quick test with the 3.8 kernel and XFS directly on top of > the RBD device, but the new size won't get detected while XFS is mounted. > thanks, Wido! So I will need to do an umount (after the RBD resize), then 'xfs_growfs', and then mount again, and that should be it? -jf _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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