With LVM, you can re-scan the scsi bus to extend a physical drive and then run a pvextend.
@Calvin: I tried your solution # partprobe /dev/rbd1 Unfortunatly nothing changed. Did you make it working? Cheers! On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Sébastien Han <han.sebast...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hum ok, I see. Thanks! > > But if you have any clue to force the kernel to re-read without > unmont/mounting :) > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: >> >> >> On 19-07-12 17:26, Sébastien Han wrote: >>> >>> Ok I got your point seems logic, but why is this possible with LVM for >>> example? >>> >>> You can easily do this with LVM without un-mounting the device. >>> >> >> >> LVM runs through the device mapper and are not regular block devices. >> >> If you resize the disk underneath LVM you won't see an increased VG or PV >> size unless you change the availability of the VG to unavailable and back to >> available again. >> >> I'm not a 100% sure what the exact root cause is, but the kernel won't read >> the new size of a block device as long as it is in use. >> >> Wido >> >> >> >>> Cheers. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> On 19-07-12 16:55, Sébastien Han wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Cephers! >>>>> >>>>> I'm working with rbd mapping. I figured out that the block device size >>>>> of the rbd device is not update while the device is mounted. Here my >>>>> tests: >>>>> >>>> >>>> iirc this is not something RBD specific, but since the device is in use >>>> it >>>> can't be re-read by the kernel. >>>> >>>> So when you unmount it the kernel can re-read the header and resize the >>>> device. >>>> >>>> Wido >>>> >>>>> 1. Pick up a device and check his size >>>>> >>>>> # rbd ls >>>>> size >>>>> >>>>> # rbd info test >>>>> rbd image 'test': >>>>> size 10000 MB in 2500 objects >>>>> order 22 (4096 KB objects) >>>>> block_name_prefix: rb.0.6 >>>>> parent: (pool -1) >>>>> >>>>> 2. Map the device >>>>> >>>>> # rbd map --secret /etc/ceph/secret test >>>>> # rbd showmapped >>>>> id pool image snap device >>>>> 1 rbd test - /dev/rbd1 >>>>> >>>>> 3. Put a fs on it and check the block device size >>>>> >>>>> # mkfs.ext4 /dev/rdb1 >>>>> ... >>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> # fdisk -l /dev/rbd1 >>>>> >>>>> Disk /dev/rbd1: 10.5 GB, 10485760000 bytes >>>>> >>>>> 4. Mount it >>>>> >>>>> # mount /dev/rbd1 /mnt >>>>> # df -h >>>>> /dev/rbd1 9.8G 277M 9.0G 3% /mnt >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 5. Change the image size >>>>> >>>>> # rbd resize --size 11000 test >>>>> Resizing image: 100% complete...done. >>>>> >>>>> # rbd info test >>>>> rbd image 'test': >>>>> size 11000 MB in 2750 objects >>>>> order 22 (4096 KB objects) >>>>> block_name_prefix: rb.0.6 >>>>> parent: (pool -1) >>>>> >>>>> At this point of time, if you perform the fdisk -l /dev/rbd1, the >>>>> block device size will remain the same. >>>>> >>>>> 6. Unmount the device: >>>>> >>>>> # umount /media >>>>> >>>>> # fdisk -l /dev/rbd1 >>>>> Disk /dev/rbd1: 11.5 GB, 11534336000 bytes >>>>> >>>>> Unmounting the directory did update the block device size. >>>>> >>>>> Of course you can do something really fast like: >>>>> >>>>> # umount /media && mount /dev/rbd1 /media >>>>> >>>>> That will work, it's a valid solution as long as there is no opened >>>>> file. I won't use this trick in production... >>>>> >>>>> I also tried to "mount -o remount" and it didn't work. >>>>> >>>>> 7. Resize the fs (this can be performed while the fs is mounted): >>>>> >>>>> # e2fsck -f /dev/rbd1 >>>>> e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) >>>>> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes >>>>> Pass 2: Checking directory structure >>>>> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity >>>>> Pass 4: Checking reference counts >>>>> Pass 5: Checking group summary information >>>>> /dev/rbd1: 11/644640 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 77173/2560000 blocks >>>>> >>>>> # resize2fs /dev/rbd1 >>>>> resize2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) >>>>> Resizing the filesystem on /dev/rbd1 to 2816000 (4k) blocks. >>>>> The filesystem on /dev/rbd1 is now 2816000 blocks long. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Did I miss something? >>>>> Is this feature coming? >>>>> >>>>> Thank you in advance :) >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in >>>>> the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org >>>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>>>> >>>> >> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html