On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: > hey folks, I'm 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? This is supposed to work. If it doesn't, there is a bug/regression. Did you try it? sage > > Also, a question about the RBD and partitioning: would you recommend > skipping partitioning, and just making an xfs out of the entire drive? > I'm just thinking how you would have to deal with partitioning upon an > RBD resize. Are there any problems that I should be aware of? > > thanks, > -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 > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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