Bug#678693: Please add a /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/ script

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at researchut.com
Mon Jun 25 12:19:13 UTC 2012


Do you see this affecting multipath?

There is no use case to run dm-multipath on a local block device.

There are setups where you would want LVM on top of your SAN Multipath
Device, but I think we already take care of that.

Please let me know if you are expecting something else from multipath.


On Sunday 24 June 2012 12:29 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Package: multipath-tools
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> the initramfs has a number of scripts to configure lvm, raid or crypto
> devices (provided by their respective packages). Those script are run
> once in fixed order allowing for certain combinations of them,
> e.g. lvm on crypto. But some combinations won't work, especially
> nested setups, e.g. raid on raid.
>
> Another problem is that block devices might take a long time to
> appear, specifically USB drivers take so long to load and detect an
> USB block device that by that time the scripts for crypto, lvm and
> raid have often already been run. Booting from LVM on an USB block
> device becomes a game of chance or is simply impossible without
> manually adding rootdelay=xx to the boot options.
>
>
> I'm preparing a patch for initramfs-tools to solve this problem. This
> involves a udev rule and a simple loop in /init that waits for new
> block devices to appear and then runs all scripts in
> /scripts/local-block/ until the devices for $ROOT and $resume appear
> or a timeout is reached.
>
> What I would like from your side is to add a script to
>     /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/
>
> The scripts there will be called with the usual initramfs environment
> variables set but also with NEWDEVS containing a list of new devices,
> all devices discovered since the last time the script was called. The
> script should then configure crypto / lvm / md for those devices as
> appropriate.
>
> Note: The scripts are called at least once. If udev is broken,
> terribly slow or simply not present in the initramfs then NEWDEVS can
> be empty. In that case all devices in /dev/ should be considered.
>
> Note2: It is possible to simply copy your local-top script to
> local-block, remove the prerequisites of the script and ignore NEWDEVS
> completly.
>
> Note3: Please do not delete the local-top script just yet so that you
> remain compatible to the old and new version of initramfs. There is
> little harm in running the script in local-top an extra time.
>
> MfG
> 	Goswin
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
>
>


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."


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