Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2016-05-11 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 5/11/2016 2:12 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: On 0510T1522, Matthew Grooms wrote: The PR 204901 filed for this can be closed now that the author (ahem) has committed support for the camcontrol reprobe command ... https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204901 https://docs.free

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2016-05-11 Thread Edward Tomasz Napierała
On 0510T1522, Matthew Grooms wrote: > On 11/28/2015 10:03 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: > > On 11/28/2015 6:10 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: > >> On 11/27/2015 7:44 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: > >>> I spent the day looking over the FreeBSD cam and scsi_da source code. > >>> After sprinkling a bunch of printf

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2016-05-10 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 11/28/2015 10:03 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: On 11/28/2015 6:10 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: On 11/27/2015 7:44 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: I spent the day looking over the FreeBSD cam and scsi_da source code. After sprinkling a bunch of printf's around to see what code paths were being called, It'

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2015-11-28 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 11/28/2015 6:10 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: On 11/27/2015 7:44 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: I spent the day looking over the FreeBSD cam and scsi_da source code. After sprinkling a bunch of printf's around to see what code paths were being called, It's obvious that Edward was correct in assuming

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2015-11-28 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 11/27/2015 7:44 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: I spent the day looking over the FreeBSD cam and scsi_da source code. After sprinkling a bunch of printf's around to see what code paths were being called, It's obvious that Edward was correct in assuming that ESXi doesn't return any 'Unit Attention'

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2015-11-27 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 11/27/2015 12:56 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: I thought it would be useful to get more output from the geom layer, similar to the camcontrol debug output ... [root@iscsi-i /home/mgrooms]# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x81 When I resize the iSCSI LUN and run the 'camcontrol readcap da2 -h', I s

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2015-11-27 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 11/27/2015 12:08 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote: On 11/27/2015 3:16 AM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 27-11-2015 06:59, Matthew Grooms wrote: All, I know this is a very late follow up, but spent some more time looking at this today and found some additional information that I found quite interest

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2015-11-27 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 11/27/2015 3:16 AM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 27-11-2015 06:59, Matthew Grooms wrote: On 10/16/2014 3:10 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: On 1010T1529, Matthew Grooms wrote: All, I am a long time user and advocate of FreeBSD and manage a several deployments of FreeBSD in a few data c

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2015-11-27 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
On 27-11-2015 06:59, Matthew Grooms wrote: On 10/16/2014 3:10 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: On 1010T1529, Matthew Grooms wrote: All, I am a long time user and advocate of FreeBSD and manage a several deployments of FreeBSD in a few data centers. Now that these environments are almost alwa

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2015-11-26 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 10/16/2014 3:10 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: On 1010T1529, Matthew Grooms wrote: All, I am a long time user and advocate of FreeBSD and manage a several deployments of FreeBSD in a few data centers. Now that these environments are almost always virtual, it would make sense that FreeBSD

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2014-10-18 Thread Matthew Grooms
On 10/16/2014 3:17 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:10, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: "camcontrol rescan" does not force fetching the updated disk size. AFAIK there is no way to do that. However, this should happen automatically, if the "other side" properly sends proper Un

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2014-10-16 Thread Michael Jung
On 2014-10-16 04:17, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:10, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: "camcontrol rescan" does not force fetching the updated disk size. AFAIK there is no way to do that. However, this should happen automatically, if the "other side" properly sends proper Unit

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2014-10-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
> On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:10, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > "camcontrol rescan" does not force fetching the updated disk size. > AFAIK there is no way to do that. However, this should happen > automatically, if the "other side" properly sends proper Unit Attention > after resizing. No idea wh

Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2014-10-16 Thread Edward Tomasz Napierała
On 1010T1529, Matthew Grooms wrote: > All, > > I am a long time user and advocate of FreeBSD and manage a several > deployments of FreeBSD in a few data centers. Now that these > environments are almost always virtual, it would make sense that FreeBSD > support for basic features such as dynami

Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

2014-10-10 Thread Matthew Grooms
All, I am a long time user and advocate of FreeBSD and manage a several deployments of FreeBSD in a few data centers. Now that these environments are almost always virtual, it would make sense that FreeBSD support for basic features such as dynamic disk resizing. It looks like most of the par