bhyve zfs resizing

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Mon Mar 18 15:25:34 UTC 2019


On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 09:08:31AM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
>
>Do you mean using a zvol as the backing store for a VM?  If so, then:
>1) Yes.  You can just do "zfs set volsize" on the host.
>2) In theory no, but the guest may need to be rebooted to notice the
>change.  And I'm not sure if the current bhyve code will expose the
>new size without a reboot or not.
>3) Sure.  But after you expand the zvol (or before you shrink it),
>you'll have to change the size of the guest's filesystem using the
>guest's native tools.

Great, that's awesome. Thanks for clarifying 
-- 
J.
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