That's correct. Before 1.0.3 this happens to be working but mostly by
chance. This will be fully supported when bug 6699271 is fixed.

alex.

Misha Chawla Shanker wrote:
> This is a known issue. LDOMs doesn't support dynamic resizing of I/O
> devices (volumes included). Even if you run "prtvtoc" on that disk
> corresponding to that volume in the guest, you will see that it does
> not show the new size.
> The SUN bug id for this is: CR 6699271 Dynamic virtual disk size management.
> 
> Till this is fixed, the workaround is to stop and restart the guest.
> 
> I think in 1.0.2 it just happened to work by chance for single slice
> volumes, the code for this support is not yet in, someone from the
> LDOMs engineering can confirm.
> 
> Regards,
> Misha.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Brian Wroblewski
> <brian.wroblewski at we-energies.com> wrote:
>> I am having problems growing a filesystem in a logical domain after growing 
>> the volume in the control domain. We are using LDoms 1.0.3 and Veritas 
>> Storage Foundation 5.0 MP1 installed on both the control domain and on the 
>> logical domain. I ran the vxassist in the control domain to grow the volume 
>> and then I try to run the fsadm command in the logical domain to grow the 
>> filesystem but I get an error saying that I cannot expand more then the size 
>> of the underlying device.
>>
>> Vxprint on the control domain shows the new volume size, but the error 
>> message from the fsadm command shows the old size. If I stop the domain, 
>> unbind and rebind it, then the OS on the logical domain sees the correct 
>> disk size. Boot -r or devfsadm would not correct this. Only a unbind and 
>> re-bind corrected it.
>>
>> I was able to grow the filesystems with out unbinding with LDom 1.0.2. The 
>> volumes are setup as a single slice. Anyone else encounter this?
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