[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: noflush resizing (3/3) Allow table swapping with different size

Jun'ichi Nomura j-nomura at ce.jp.nec.com
Wed Oct 24 21:26:02 UTC 2007


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 at ce.jp.nec.com>

---
 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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