[PATCH] dm: noflush resizing (3/3) Allow table swapping with differentsize

From: Jun'ichi Nomura
Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 - 17:26:43 EST


This patch removes the check for whether the loaded table
is going to change the device size and allows resizing of
the dm device suspended with 'noflush'.


Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
dm.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.23.work/drivers/md/dm.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23.work.orig/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ linux-2.6.23.work/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1288,11 +1288,6 @@ int dm_swap_table(struct mapped_device *
if (!dm_suspended(md))
goto out;

- /* without bdev, the device size cannot be changed */
- if (!md->suspended_bdev)
- if (get_capacity(md->disk) != dm_table_get_size(table))
- goto out;
-
__unbind(md);
r = __bind(md, table);

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