What the vx document refers to is with Sol10u4 where a volume could only be exported as a single slice.
Regards, Misha. On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Alexandre Chartre <Alexandre.Chartre at sun.com> wrote: > > It works only if the volume (either VxVM or ZFS) is exported as a > single-slice disk (i.e. exported with the "slice" option). Otherwise > if the volume is exported as a full disk then the accessible geometry > is controlled by the disk label which is written on the disk. > > There's a RFE opened for this: 6699271 (Dynamic virtual disk size > management). > > alex. > > Stuart Davey wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Forgive me if I'm being stupid but I'm currently trying to grow a >> Veritas Filesystem in a guest LDOM without any success. The Veritas >> documentation suggests that it is possible: first grow the VxVM volume >> in the control domain using "vxassist -g diskgroup growto volume length" >> and then grow the file system in the guest domain using >> "/usr/lib/fs/vxfs/fsadm -b num_blocks mount_point". The Vx docs state >> that VxVM must be in the control domain and VxFS in the guest. >> >> The issue I seem to be having is that when I export the volume to the >> guest LDOM, it sees it as a normal disk (i.e. 7 slices). Consequently I >> go into format and partition it, label it and then apply a VxFS to it >> before mounting. After growing the volume in the control domain the >> guest domain still sees the original size volume (checked with format) >> and so it can't grow the file system. Have I missed something obvious? >> >> Before starting out, I was hoping that I would simply be able to put >> VxFS on a Vx volume in the control domain and then export it to the >> guest domain - similar to what one would do with ZFS. My experience and >> the Vx docs suggest that this is not possible. >> >> Has anyone out there been successful in growing a Vx file system in a >> guest LDOM. If you have, and you can give me the "recipe" then I would >> be very grateful. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stuart >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss > _______________________________________________ > ldoms-discuss mailing list > ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >
