[linux-lvm] pvresize patch pending

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:14:43PM +0100, Zak Kipling wrote:
> Indeed. I've recently been working on an implementation myself 
> (primarily because I wanted to grow a live PV on my own system), which 
> I've attached in its current (somewhat rough, but seemingly working) 
> state as a patch against CVS HEAD.
 
Unless I've missed something while skimming through, I think the code 
still needs a preceding 'pvcreate --restorefile' equivalent to ensure 
the size of the device is set correctly in the label (for PVs in a VG).
(But since the 'Reinstate full PV size when removing from VG.' fix,
perhaps a code audit would show that we can safely override that label 
field with the one taken from the VG and allow it to remain wrong on disk.)

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2005-July/msg00033.html
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2005-July/msg00029.html
  pvs -o +dev_size

Apart from that and the process_each_pv() simplification, it 
looks pretty good!

> * Support for metadata formats other than format_text.

Let's just exclude them with a FMT_RESIZE_PV feature flag.
 
> * Support for more than one mda on a PV (I think it will currently 
> clobber ones at the end of the PV, since it assumes all space after 
> pe_start is available for extents).
 
Check the number of mdas on the PV and refuse to proceed if it exceeds 1.
We need to write separate new tools to add/remove/manipulate mdas.

Alasdair
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agk at redhat.com