On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:38:43PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:22:06PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:05:04PM -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > > > > > > > Responding to my own mail, I did got the source with the patches from the > > > > cvs. But, the resizing does not work for with with mounted volumes. There > > > > are 4 paths for the volume, so there is no probably with it failing paths. > > > > I get "domap(0) failure for create/reload map" when I run multipath -v 3. > > > > > > > > I can get dm to reconize the new size if the volume is umounted. But, I > > > > really would like it to work while it is mounted. > > > > > > > > > > It should work for mounted volumes. Did you try > > > multipathd -k"resize map <mapname>" > > > > > > Since this requires suspending without the no_flush option, I didn't > > > want to have it happen on a normal reload, and since without the kernel > > > fixes, this required removing and then readding paths, I did it through > > > multipathd. > > > > > > So just running multipath -v3 after a path resize won't work. In fact, I > > > think it might leave the devices in the suspended state, since the > > > resume fails. > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > I just tried this but I'm having problems getting it to work.. > > > > # multipathd -k"resize map mpath-resize-test" > > fail > > > > The underlying SCSI devices have been online resized already, and verified > > from dmesg and from /proc/partitions to be bigger. > > > > I'm running rhel5 kernel with scsi online resize patches (2.6.18-93.el5.bz444964.2) > > and dm-multipath testing packages with support for online resizing > > (device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-19.el5.i386.rpm). > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Actually I think the problem was that I had not yet reloaded multipathd > configuration, so my underlying devices were still blacklisted according to > multipathd -k"show devices".. but still I had the mpath-device up and > running :) Oh well.. > > I ran "/etc/init.d/multipathd reload" and then: > > # multipathd -k"resize map mpath-resize-test" > ok > > But "multipath -ll" still shows the mpath-resize-test device with the > same/old size.. > > What to do/try next? Does # blockdev --getsize <scsi_device> show the new size, after you have increased the scsi device size? Also, can you start up multipathd with the -v3 option, and copy any messages that are printed out when you run # multipathd -k"resize map mpath-resize-test" Thanks. -Ben > > -- Pasi > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
