From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755361AbYICSYE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:24:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752872AbYICSXy (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:23:54 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:59725 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752720AbYICSXy (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:23:54 -0400 From: Jeff Moyer To: Andrew Patterson Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, axboe@kernel.dk, andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mike.miller@hp.com, genanr@emsphone.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] Adjust block device size after an online resize of a disk. References: <20080829231254.25065.66052.stgit@bluto.andrew> <20080829231305.25065.3834.stgit@bluto.andrew> X-PGP-KeyID: 1F78E1B4 X-PGP-CertKey: F6FE 280D 8293 F72C 65FD 5A58 1FF8 A7CA 1F78 E1B4 X-PCLoadLetter: What the f**k does that mean? Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:17:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080829231305.25065.3834.stgit@bluto.andrew> (Andrew Patterson's message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:13:05 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Patterson writes: > Adjust block device size after an online resize of a disk. > > The revalidate_disk routine now checks if a disk has been resized by > comparing the gendisk capacity to the bdev inode size. If they are > different (usually because the disk has been resized underneath the kernel) > the bdev inode size is adjusted to match the capacity. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer