I've looked at the LVM rules used in dracut just recently
and it needs fixing - we should react to change events only
for DM devices, so we have to skip vol_id/blkid call on ADD:
KERNEL=="dm-[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", GOTO="lvm_end"
Also, MD devices have their own rules, where vol_id/blkid
is called and where the symlinks are created (when looking
into raw initrd, this is in 64-md-raid.rules).
Also, if those rules are meant to be for DM devices only,
maybe we should skip symlink creation for the other devices
there, to keep the rules clean and straightforward. I think
we shouldn't create/recreate symlinks for non-dm devices in
LVM/DM rules (..should be in appropriate rules for that type
of device):
KERNEL!="dm-[0-9]*", GOTO="lvm_end"
Since different distros may or may not use vol_id in udev, and blkid
is generally replacing vol_id, abstract them out into a function which
tries to use vol_id first and blkid second, on the assumption that
blkid can take over for vol_id if vol_id is no longer there.
LVM
rd_NO_LVM
disable LVM detection
rd_LVM_VG=<volume group name>
only activate the volume groups with the given name
crypto LUKS
rd_NO_LUKS
disable crypto LUKS detection
rd_LUKS_UUID=<luks uuid>
only activate the LUKS partitions with the given UUID
MD
rd_NO_MD
disable MD RAID detection
rd_MD_UUID=<md uuid>
only activate the raid sets with the given UUID
DMRAID
rd_NO_DM
disable DM RAID detection
rd_DM_UUID=<dmraid uuid>
only activate the raid sets with the given UUID
This also eliminates --skip-missing. Check scripts should now check
to ensure that any files and settings they will copy from the host
system actually exist when called without arguments.
The check scripts are also updated to not try to source dracut-functions
which(1) is a perfectly good way of checking if a command is on the path.
All modules now live in a subdirectory /modules.d. Each module is
self-contained -- it should contain everything that it will install
on the initrd. All modules must include a script named install, which
will be sourced by dracut. This script should do the actual file installation
using inst methods. The moddir variable will point to the full path to the
module dracut is currently working on.
As usual, this patch series applies on top of my previous patch series,
and is available as normalize-modules from http://git.fnordovax.org/dracut.
Harald Hoyer