Re: [Xen-users] Report to a domU a change on a disk

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Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] Report to a domU a change on a disk
From:	"Andy Burns" <xen.lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:25:26 +0100
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2008/9/1 Alain Barthe <ab266061@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 2008/9/1 Angel L. Mateo <amateo@xxxxx>
>>
>>        I have a Xen dom0 (Debian Etch running xen 3.0.3) running different
>> domUs. DomUs' disks are LVM2 volumes. Now I have increased the size of
>> one of these LVM volumes so I have to inform to the corresponding domU
>> that its disk has increased its size (to resize it without unmounting
>> it). How can I do this?
>
> It seems AFAIK that you cannot tell an alive domU that its disk has grown
> without detaching and re attaching this disk. So if the disk supports the
> root filesystem, you can't.

Unfortunately I've never seen a way to do it, it would be a nice feature.

> Also, you can't resize a filesystem without unmounting it
> (http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions).

After the kernel is aware of the new disk size, resizing the
filesystem is easy, just use resize2fs with a recent enough distro
(assuming ext2/3)

I prefer not to run LVM2 within the domU, there are already enough
layers (md, LVM) where block alignments can get mismatched causing
split read/writes and dropped performance)

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