Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: Call revalidate_disk() upon online disk resize

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Mar 29 2012 - 04:11:16 EST


On 03/28/2012 10:32 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> If a virtio disk is open in guest and a disk resize operation is done,
> (virsh blockresize), new size is not visible to tools like "fdisk -l".
> This seems to be happening as we update only part->nr_sects and not
> bdev->bd_inode size.
>
> Call revalidate_disk() which should take care of it. I tested growing disk
> size of already open disk and it works for me.

Thanks, obviously right. Applied.

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Jens Axboe

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