Integrate the option to use an OverlayFS as the root filesystem
into the 90dmsquash-live module for testing purposes.
The rd.live.overlay.overlayfs option allows one to request an
OverlayFS overlay. If a persistent overlay is detected at the
standard LiveOS path, the overlay & type detected will be used.
Tested primarily with transient, in-RAM overlay boots on vfat-
formatted Live USB devices, with persistent overlay directories
on ext4-formatted Live USB devices, and with embedded, persistent
overlay directories on vfat-formatted devices. (Persistent overlay
directories on a vfat-formatted device must be in an embedded
filesystem that supports the creation of trusted.* extended
attributes, and must provide valid d_type in readdir responses.)
The rd.live.overlay.readonly option, which allows a persistent
overlayfs to be mounted read only through a higher level transient
overlay directory, has been implemented through the multiple lower
layers feature of OverlayFS.
The default transient DM overlay size has been adjusted up to 32 GiB.
This change supports comparison of transient Device-mapper vs.
transient OverlayFS overlay performance. A transient DM overlay
is a sparse file in memory, so this setting does not consume more
RAM for legacy applications. It does permit a user to use all of
the available root filesystem storage, and fails gently when it is
consumed, as the available free root filesystem storage on a typical
LiveOS build is only a few GiB. Thus, when booted on other-
than-small RAM systems, the transient DM overlay should not overflow.
OverlayFS offers the potential to use all of the available free RAM
or all of the available free disc storage (on non-vfat-devices)
in its overlay, even beyond the root filesystem available space,
because the OverlayFS root filesystem is a union of directories on
two different partitions.
This patch also cleans up some message spew at shutdown, shortens
the execution path in a couple of places, and uses persistent
DM targets where required.
Documentation is updated for these changes.
Some docs claimed that values in certain config files would be
overwritten, when they would actually be overridden.
Override: a file is not modified but its contents are superseded by
something else. (configurations set in
/etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf override configurations set in
/etc/dracut.conf)
Overwrite: a file is modified or its contents replaced by an action
(use dracut --force to overwrite the existing initramfs)
Add a systemd generator for root=nbd:.. so that systemd has a correct
sysroot.mount unit.
Use export names instead of port numbers, because port number based
exports are deprecated and were removed.
Add descriptions for the rd.live.overlay.readonly,
rd.live.overlay.size, rd.live.overlay.reset,
rd.live.squashimg, and rd.live.overlay=none options.
Mention the Invalid mark on exhausted overlays.
Clarify the rd.writable.fsimg option.
Repunctuate the rd.live.overlay.thin option description.
rd.net.dhcp.retry=<cnt>
If this option is set, dracut will try to connect via dhcp
<cnt> times before failing. Default is 1.
rd.net.timeout.dhcp=<arg>
If this option is set, dhclient is called with "-timeout <arg>".
rd.net.timeout.iflink=<seconds>
Wait <seconds> until link shows up. Default is 60 seconds.
rd.net.timeout.ifup=<seconds>
Wait <seconds> until link has state "UP". Default is 20 seconds.
rd.net.timeout.route=<seconds>
Wait <seconds> until route shows up. Default is 20 seconds.
rd.net.timeout.ipv6dad=<seconds>
Wait <seconds> until IPv6 DAD is finished. Default is 50 seconds.
rd.net.timeout.ipv6auto=<seconds>
Wait <seconds> until IPv6 automatic addresses are assigned.
Default is 40 seconds.
rd.net.timeout.carrier=<seconds>
Wait <seconds> until carrier is recognized. Default is 5 seconds.
(cherry picked from commit d8ad687e1a)
Previously rd.live.fsimg only supported filesystems residing in
(compressed) archives.
Now rd.live.fsimg can also be used when a squashfs image is used.
This is achieved by extracting the rootfs image from the squashfs and
then continue with the default routines for rd.live.fsimg.
In addition some code duplication got removed and some documentation
got added.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@fedoraproject.org>
This option changes the underlying mechanism for the overlay in the
dmsquash module.
Instead of a plain dm snapshot a dm thin snapshot is used. The advantage
of the thin snapshot is, that the TRIM command is recognized, which
means that at runtime, only the occupied blocks will be claimed from
memory, and freed blocks will really be freed in ram.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@fedoraproject.org>
When generating units for devices the administrator might
want to use a different timeout than the default.
So implement a new parameter 'rd.timeout' for this.
References: bnc#878770
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
This patch adds bittorrent support to 45url-lib for those that might want
to retrieve the same live image for multiple systems at once without
saturating the network.
This patch requires ctorrent to be installed into initramfs.
Torrent kernel command line format:
root=live:torrent://example.com/liveboot.img.torrent
Start a tracker:
bttrack --bind <tracker_ip> --port 6969 --dfile dstate --reannounce_interval 60
Create the torrent:
ctorrent -t live_image -u http://<tracker_ip>:6969/announce -s live_image.torrent
Seed the initial torrent:
ctorrent live_image.torrent
Boot the live image.
A user can provide a filesystem image (rootfs.img) inside a compressed
tarball and that filesystem image will be mounted read/write. This provides
some benefits over a device mapper snapshot overlay, especially when the
live system becomes full. The boot command line simple needs
"rd.writable.fsimg" added to utilize this feature.
Additional documentation for this option as well as other live boot
options is included.
Signed-off-by: Major Hayden <major@mhtx.net>
rd.iscsi.ibft[=1] should be used instead.
Thing is, 'ip=ibft' is not really an ip setting, but rather a marker
that iBFT should be evaluated.
Also removed the trigger of the warning:
"Warning: Please supply bootdev argument for multiple ip= lines"
Currently when action_on_fail is enabled, the emergency_shell won't be called.
In kdump even though user specify the default action as emergency_shell,
dracut skip it. Now change the implementation of action_on_fail to depend
on a file which is created by kdump when making kdump initrd, then remove it
at the beginning of kdump. This can solve the explicit emergency_shell problem.
And action_on_fail won't need paramenters, remove the relevant description in
dracut man page.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Currently the default action is emergency_shell when failure happened
during system boot. In kdump, this default may not be expected. E.g,
if dump target is not rootfs, it does not matter if mount root failed.
Adding an action which allow dracut always go ahead though failure
happens is needed by kdump.
So here add a function action_on_fail() and cmdline parameter
action_on_fail=<shell | continue>. Use action_to_fail() to replace
emergency_shell which was called after failure. By $(getarg action_on_fail=),
decide to drop into shell, or to leave away the failure and go ahead.
v3->v4:
add handling of selinux policy loaded failure, and change code format to
be consitent
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
[Edited by harald@redhat.com]
V2: merge patch 2/2
fix active-backup mode by adding slaves one by one
sync with the latest teamd
improve the comments
wait for team ports to come up
install /etc/libnl/classid too
This patch adds the initial support for team device [1].
A new cmdline team= is introduced for it.
Note, currently we don't support stacked devices
on/under team, it is tricky and can be added on request.
1. http://www.libteam.org/
Cc: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Harald Hoyer