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Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH]: Support dynamic resizing of vbds


>>> On 3/14/2010 at  9:49 AM, in message
<f4527be1003140649p6d9cced6u7d1fde07897ae70c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Lyon
<andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:41 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:56:11 Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>>> The attached patch supports dynamic resizing of vbds.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for this.
>>
>> The patch applied succesfully against the gentoo-xen kernel (2.6.29-xen-r4)
>>
>> I will test the patch on my system during the next week and provide 
> feedback.
Thanks. Looking forward to your feedback.

K. Y
>>
>> --
>> Joost Roeleveld
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> 
> I tested the patch on xen-sources-2.6.31-r12 and it appears to work perfectly:
> 
> dom0: VBD Resize: new size 172032
> domU: Setting capacity to 172032
> 
> I extended the filesystem and filled up the available space, then
> extended again:
> 
> dom0: VBD Resize: new size 376832
> domU: Setting capacity to 376832
> 
> fsck, badblocks, and testing a tarball I had filled the filesystem
> with revealed no problems, so I decided to try reducing the
> filesystem, first using resize2fs, then reducing the size of the block
> device, although some errors were logged in domU the operation seemed
> to work ok:
> 
> dom0: VBD Resize: new size 114688
> domU: Setting capacity to 114688
> domU: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb1, sector 212984
> domU: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 26623
> 
> I did notice that it seemed to be necessary to "poke" the device using
> cfdisk /dev/sdb1 before domU would notice the new size, but on the
> whole everything works nicely and this is a very useful new feature!
> 
> Andy
> 
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