Re: [PATCH 0/6] detect online disk resize

["Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 02:01:14PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> 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