The 69-dm-lvm-metad.rules udev rule has been removed from
the initrd, because it's been dropped by recent upstream
lvm versions, and it never performed any primary function
within the initrd. But, it did have the job of setting
LVM_MD_PV_ACTIVATED=1 for active md devices used by PVs.
That step needs to be restored, and is now included in
64-lvm.rules.
The --partial option will activate a linear (or other) LV
without segments for missing devices, which is unlikely to
be useful. The intention was to activate raid LVs in a useful
form while missing devices, which is specified with the option
--activationmode degraded.
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.
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.
David Teigland