On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 02:01:14PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@xxxxxx> writes: > > > This is version 2 of a patch series I submitted back in May 2008. This > > version now checks for device size changes in the rescan_partitions() > > routine. Which in turn is called when a device is opened and in the > > BLKRRPART ioctl. > > > > I am resubmitting this patch series as I got little response the > > previous time. Al Viro has told me offline that he would look at it this > > time. > > [...] > > > I have tested this patch on SCSI and SmartArray (cciss) > > devices. Device mapper still does not recognize device size changes > > until the device is restarted. > > > > Jeff Moyer and Andy Ryan have done some light testing on the previous > > version of this series. > > I re-tested this new patch series using an iSCSI target via the > following steps: > > 1) Connect to iSCSI storage, creating the /dev/sd* devices. > 2) Create a file system on the block device > 3) Mount the file system, and leave a shell active on the mount point. > 4) resize the iSCSI LUN > 5) rescan the iSCSI session > 6) resize the file system > > This procedure worked fine. > So now we just need a sane way to resize dm-multipath devices online :) -- Pasi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
