Before modifying 69-dm-lvm-metad.rules, we should check for the
existance first. Otherwise this results in error messages on
distributions (debian), which do not ship these rules.
--hostonly-cmdline:
Store kernel command line arguments needed in the initramfs
--no-hostonly-cmdline:
Do not store kernel command line arguments needed in the initramfs
Add new functions require_binaries() and require_any_binary() to be used
in the check() section of module-setup.sh.
These functions print a warning line telling the user, which binary is
missing for the specific dracut module.
This unifies the way of checking for binaries and makes the life of an
initramfs creator easier, if he wants to find out why a specific dracut
module is not included in the initramfs.
The lvmetad daemon is not yet running in initramfs so there's no
need to run pvscan (or instantiate any lvm2-pvscan systemd service).
If pvscan was called in this case (either directly or via systemd
instantiated service), it would fail because there's no lvmetad
daemon to update. This could cause confusion, especially in systemd
instantiated service which is run only once!
The global var setting was happening in a pipe and did not have an
effect.
Use <<<$() instead.
< <() cannot be used, because dracut is called in chroot's environments,
where /dev/fd does not point to /proc/self/fd, but bash wants
/dev/fd/<num> for this construct.
The 69-dm-lvm-metad.rules set some udev env. variables that makes it
possible to detect the right time to activate LVM on MD. The MD is very
similar to DM during activation - it's usable only after proper device
activation - the CHANGE event. We need to make a difference between a
CHANGE event that comes from this activation and CHANGE event that is
the outcome of the WATCH udev rule (otherwise we'd end up with LVM
activation done on each CHANGE event - which is wrong).
So we need the udev databse to be persistent during pivot to root fs
even for MD devices.
This prints the kernel command line parameters for the current disk
layout.
$ dracut --print-cmdline
rd.luks.uuid=luks-e68c8906-6542-4a26-83c4-91b4dd9f0471
rd.lvm.lv=debian/root rd.lvm.lv=debian/usr root=/dev/mapper/debian-root
rootflags=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered
rootfstype=ext4
No automatic assembly is done anymore by default. You will have to
specify exactly what devices to assemble
("rd.md.uuid=" "rd.luks.uuid" ...)
or use "rd.auto=1" or "rd.auto" on the kernel command line.
For big servers with thousands of disks we don't want to assemble
everything by default (error prone, slow).
For lvm, multipath, iscsi modules they do not care about the filesystem,
Also there could be devcie in host_devs but it does not get formated.
For these kind of modules, use for_each_host_dev_and_slaves will be better than use
for_each_host_dev_fs, here add a new function to iterate the host_devs and
their slave devices.
In original for_each_host_dev_fs, it will call check_block_and_slaves which
will return once helper function return 0, but this is not enough for kdump
iscsi setup. For kdump iscsi case, it need setup each slave devices so that
the iscsi target can be properly setuped in initramfs.
Thus, this patch also add new functions check_block_and_slaves_all and
for_each_host_dev_and_slaves_all.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Tested-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Currently dracut uses lvm.conf as found in the system and modifies only
global/locking_type setting. As there's a new feature introduced - the lvmetad
daemon, dracut should disable its use as well by setting "global/use_lvmetad=0"
(patch attached).
Otherwise, there's a warning message issued:
dracut: WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad: No such file or directory.
Falling back to internal scanning.
@@ -, +, @@
modules.d/90lvm/lvm_scan.sh | 2 ++
modules.d/90lvm/module-setup.sh | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Another solution could be searching in directories found at
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf or adding a new parameter. Here is a patch
which adds a new --libdirs parameter, and also a new inst_libdir_file
function which will try to expand metacharacters on each lib
directory:
inst_libdir_file "libdevmapper-event-lvm*.so"
In kernel_only mode, we don't want to write /etc/cmdline.d
Correctly return the check functions, so we have a valid return of
for_each_host_dev_fs().
mdraid and dmraid functions had wrong checkings for the filesystem
type.
Due to the way the main loop runs to detect partions, the same one
might be included twice (albeit via different symlinks.
This code simply prevents the same combo being activated twice.
A better fix might simply be to not include duplicate (after
resolving symlinks) entries in the host_fs_types variable.
Like -H, we need to poll every module to check if it is needed
to mount a specific device in '--mount'.
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
The dm module, which lvm and dmraid depend on, installed dmraid
shared libs. The lvm module installed udev rules, which were
already installed by the dm module.
Cleaned up those issues.
Harald Hoyer