Re: RES: [Xen-users] SAN + XEN + FC + LVM question(s)

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:49:16AM -0500, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:
> On Monday 15 September 2008, Bruno Bertechini wrote:
> > Just complementing Javier's email, I have tested the "online" resizing
> > inside domU's. It does not work without reboot or (re)-mount the drive /
> > partition.
> 
> it would be interesting to know where in the chain 
> (xend-xenbus-pvdrivers-block device) is the resize getting stuck.  ideally, 
> partscan _should_ get the new size, and if you do use 'inner' LVM, pvresize 
> _should_ do the trick too.
> 
> does anybody knows enough about this? who should we be nagging to fix it?
> 

There's no way in Xen to resize domU VBD devices on the fly.. 

See recent discussion about this on xen-devel:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00158.html

-- Pasi

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