It seems overly harsh to fail a resize of a btrfs file system to the
same size when a shrink or grow would succeed. User app GParted trips
over this error. Allow it by bypassing the shrink or grow operation.
Signed-off-by: Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Example failed resize:
# strace -e trace=ioctl btrfs filesystem resize max /mnt/0
Resize '/mnt/0' of 'max'
ioctl(3, 0x50009403, 0xbfa5029c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
ERROR: unable to resize '/mnt/0' - Invalid argument
# echo $?
30
# dmesg | tail -1
[426094.235018] new size for /dev/loop1 is 1073741824
---
fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index dae5dfe..00b7024 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ static noinline int btrfs_ioctl_resize(struct btrfs_root *root,
}
ret = btrfs_grow_device(trans, device, new_size);
btrfs_commit_transaction(trans, root);
- } else {
+ } else if (new_size > old_size) {
ret = btrfs_shrink_device(device, new_size);
}
--
1.7.4.4
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