On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:46:57PM -0700, Sharif Nassar wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > >Hello! > > > >Is it possible to resize (grow) dm-multipath devices on the fly nowadays? > > > >I googled and found some discussions about the subject, but the conclusion > >seemed to be it's not possible.. that was a while ago, so I was wondering > >if > >this has been fixed/implemented.. > > > >Using LVM and adding another new LUN/PV is not an option always.. it's a > >lot > >easier to manage the whole thing if it's possible to resize/grow existing > >LUNs on the fly. > > > Sure it is, but it's not pretty. Don't believe the naysayers. > We seem to have a working method for resizing multipath luns from our > NetApp filers. It works on CentOS 4 & 5, for us, and our NetApps. > (2 HBA, times 2 paths on each makes for four SCSI LUN to resize) > > The poorly formatted, unpolished, YMMV, no warranty recipe is: > Thanks a lot! Better to have a workaround than nothing :) -- Pasi -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
