Re: FreeBSD guest online disk resize

Warner Losh <[email protected]> Thu, 7 May 2026 14:37:23 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.file-systems
Message-ID <CANCZdfr0zKv3eEQ0tL4SrhhByTJhYCbv7eBbh3GhSMbrJJLXtA@mail.gmail.com>
Great! But if you are downloading an image, you could download
https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/15.1-PRERELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-15.1-PRERELEASE-amd64-zfs.raw.xz
and it will tell me if I've overlooked anything needed for 15.1 release.

Warner

On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM Alexandre Biancalana <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm giving a try with
>
> https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/16.0-CURRENT/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-amd64-zfs.raw.xz
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 5:19 PM Alexandre Biancalana
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > My question is if i need to pull any additional patch and build the
> kernel or anything else.
> >
> > On Thu, 7 May 2026 at 17:04 Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> That's necessary, but not necessarily sufficient. If it works there, it
> might work in 15. If it doesn't work there, it won't work in 15.
> >>
> >> Warner
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM Alexandre Biancalana <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I can test it, getting 16-CURRENT vm image is enough?
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 7 May 2026 at 13:53 Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I've not had a chance to test this yet, and it's getting late in the
> game. It's my belief that I MFC'd everything, but I've not had time to test
> it out.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can someone here test the scenarios that failed before on stable/15?
> >>>>
> >>>> Warner
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 5:31 AM Alexandre Biancalana <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  There’s an idea in which version outside current it will be
> available?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 at 08:35 Alexandre Biancalana <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 at 00:42 Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM Chuck Tuffli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025, at 12:49 PM, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM Warner Losh <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>>> > I have a branch cooking that listens to the namespace resize
> and do the size changes to geom. Later this week.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Great news ! Thank you Warner !
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Until there, any workaround so I don't need to reboot the machine
> to
> >>>>>>>> resize the disk ?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Warner
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Happy to poke at this if it would help. If so, which branch?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'm terribly sorry, but I've fallen two weeks behind on my email.
> Happily, at least in this case, this means that I've committed changes to
> main that address this issue by calling the right resize functions for geom
> when we get namespace change events from the AENs we post to the drive. I
> missed this kind offer of help, so hopefully it was done correctly so your
> poking around at it reveals nothing broken. But if it does turn up
> something amiss, please let me know.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Warner
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Amazing ! Thank you!
> >>>>>> Any chance that it could be MFC ?
>