This is a more sane solution, than ignoring subsequent "change" events.
The only danger is that we could loop, if a lvm scan triggers a broken
md partition, which triggers a broken PV and so on.
Better fix the scanning tools, not to emit change events for devices,
if no action was taken.
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"
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.
Support having root on LUKS with the password prompting handled by plymouth.
This requires ensuring our input is from /dev/console and also requires that
we import vol_id info about all block devices rather than ignoring dm devs
(which is what the persistent storage rules do by default)
For LVM, we need to do activation of the volume group within the initrd.
Stick lvm tools into the initrd as well as a (basic and stupid) udev rule
to run vgchange -ay. Ultimately we want to get a better rule for this into
udev proper
Harald Hoyer