On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 03:27:10AM -0000, bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs/dm > Module name: multipath-tools > Branch: RHEL5_FC6 > Changes by: bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2008-09-19 03:27:08 > > Modified files: > libmultipath : configure.c configure.h devmapper.c devmapper.h > multipathd : cli.c cli.h cli_handlers.c cli_handlers.h > main.c main.h > > Log message: > Fix for bz #455692. There is now a command for multipathd, 'resize map'. This > does online grows or shrinks for your multipath device. It has some warts. > > 1. It needs to remove and re-add every path in the device. This can cause two > annoyances. First, if you only have one valid path, you go into an all paths > down scenario. However, you will immediately re-add the path, so it won't > trigger problem #2. Second, if the path is inaccessable, you may not be able to > re-add it. > > 2. You can't disable flushing on suspend for a device-mapper device, when you > want to change size. This means that if all your paths are down, you will fail > the queued IOs when you suspend. This is a problem with the device-mapper kernel > code, and there's no real way to avoid it, except by fixing it in the kernel. > > This commit also has some minor fixups for 238421, and adds the ability to > disable and restore queueing on all multipath devices through multipathd > Nice!! So now we have SCSI disk online resizing, and dm-multipath online resizing. Excellent. I assume both of these will be in RHEL 5.3? -- Pasi -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
