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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:06:44PM -0600, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> >>> Jan Beulich 03/22/10 2:47 AM >>>
> Based on the location of the file patched, it this would seem to be 
> targeted at the 2.6.18 tree, but then 2.6.18 does not have a
> revalidate_disk() function (introduced only in .28). What's the deal
> here? Should this perhaps be carried out by open coding in blkfront
> what .28 does?
> 
> Thanks, Jan
> 
> Jan,
> 
> This patch was tested only on the 2.6.32 kernel. For kernels that don't 
> support revalidate_disk, 
> we may have to implement something equivalent. I will look at this later in 
> the week.
> 

See my other mail in this thread.. RHEL5 2.6.18 kernel already has online 
resize support,
so you could grab the patches from there.

-- Pasi

> K. Y
> >>> "Ky Srinivasan"  18.03.10 22:21 >>>
> 
> 
> >>> On 3/18/2010 at  5:01 PM, in message <4BA294A0.1010900@xxxxxxxx>, Jeremy
> Fitzhardinge  wrote: 
> > On 03/18/2010 01:28 PM, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> >> The attached patch supports dynamic resizing of vbds. This patch fixes a 
> >> bug 
> > in the previous version of this patch that was sent out. With this patch 
> > you 
> > can perform "online" resizing of  file systems that support online resizing.
> >>    
> > 
> > Please send a delta against the previous patch, since it has already 
> > been applied.
> I am attaching a new patch that is the delta on the previous one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> >      J
> 
> 
> 
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