From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 20:58:07 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC78181B for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.shrew.net (mx2.shrew.net [38.97.5.132]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC60BAC2 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.shrew.net (mail.shrew.prv [10.24.10.20]) by mx2.shrew.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s9IKv6NX060364 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:57:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mgrooms@shrew.net) Received: from [10.22.200.30] (cpe-72-177-96-36.austin.res.rr.com [72.177.96.36]) by mail.shrew.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 87FFF18A7D7 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:56:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <5442D459.3030108@shrew.net> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:58:01 -0500 From: Matthew Grooms User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ... References: <543841B8.4070007@shrew.net> <20141016081016.GA4670@brick.home> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mx2.shrew.net [10.24.10.11]); Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:57:06 -0500 (CDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:08 -0000 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 Unit >> Attention after resizing. No idea why this doesn't happen with >> VMWare. Reboot obviously clears things up. >> >> [..] > > Is open-vm-tools installed? > > I ask because if I don't have it installed and the kernel modules > loaded, VMware doesn't notify the guest OS of disks being > added/removed. > VMware tools were not installed at the time. I'll try that, but I doubt it will make a difference for resizing. > Also, what disk controller are you using? > The ESXi 5.5 default controller for FreeBSD, LSI Logic Parallel ... mpt0@pci0:0:16:0: class=0x010000 card=0x197615ad chip=0x00301000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' device = '53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI' class = mass storage subclass = SCSI I'll try it with the LSI Logic SAS controller as well to see if that makes a difference. -Matthew