Re: please backport to -stable the fix for online resizing virtio disks

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On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 18:45 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> This fix is needed to be able to resize the disk of a running KVM guest 
> without having to reboot it.
> 
> (I specifically care about stable 3.2.x, since this is what Debian uses.)

Queued up for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

> The patch has been merged in RHEL as an errata since kernel 
> 2.6.32-358.el6 (see BZ#693940).
> 
> http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel/commit/?id=e9986f303dc0f285401de28cf96f42f4dd23a4a1
> 
> From e9986f303dc0f285401de28cf96f42f4dd23a4a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:09:44 +0000
> Subject: virtio-blk: Call revalidate_disk() upon online disk resize
[...]

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life is like a sewer:
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

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