Starting with the 0.7.7 release of the multipath tools, the multipath
udev rules always set a value in ENV{DM_MULTIPATH_DEVICE_PATH} for any
device that multipath scans. A value of 0 means that the device is not
claimed by multipath, and a value of 1 means that it is. Because of
this, udev rules that check ENV{DM_MULTIPATH_DEVICE_PATH}=="?*" will
always return True, and act as if every scanned device is claimed by
multipath. Checking ENV{DM_MULTIPATH_DEVICE_PATH}=="1" will work
correctly for both the old and new versions of the multipath tools.
DM devices might be located on top of MD devices, so we need to
call the DM shutdown script before MD shutdown. The exception
here are multipath devices, which are below MD devices.
So skip removing multipath devices here to avoid spurious errors.
References: bsc#994860
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
When calling the shutdown script we need to take care of traversing
the device-mapper tables, otherwise we might end up trying to remove
a device-mapper device which still has another one stacked on top
and the removal will fail.
References: bsc#994860
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
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.
The function 99shutdown/shutdown.sh:_check_shutdown() assumes that
shutdown scripts report success or failure via their return value.
However, "dmsetup remove_all" always reports success, even if some
of the device mappings could not be removed.
I submitted a patch for dmsetup but the lvm2 folks rejected it,
asserting that its behaviour is correct, that "remove_all" should
only be used by developers and that the proper solution would be
to invoke "dmsetup remove" on each device. This does report success
or failure via the return value.
Apart from fixing that issue, this commit also adds the dmsetup
option "--noudevsync". Without it, dmsetup would hang after removal
of a device while trying to communicate with systemd-udevd, which
is no longer running at this shutdown stage.
[harald: replaces backticks with $() ]
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.
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"
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