Bug 132001

Summary:	add dm-mirror and dm-snapshot if dm-mod is brought in
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alexandre Oliva <oliva>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	3	CC:	agk, bill
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2004-09-07 18:17:35 UTC

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Description of problem:
Since running pvmove or creating a snapshot in the volume group
holding the root filesystem may cause initrd's vgscan to fail if
dm-mirror and/or dm-snapshot are needed but not present, it would be
desirable for initrd to at least contain these modules.  vgscan should
probably be improved so as to attempt to load the modules on demand,
but currently it doesn't, so we might have to explicitly load them. 
Since that amounts to about 33KiB of memory, we might as well go ahead
and do it.  If someone is bothered, it's easy enough to rmmod them
afterwards.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mkinitrd-4.1.9-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have root on LVM
2.Create a snapshot in the same volume group and/or start pvmove
3.Reboot

Actual Results:  initrd will fail to bring up the volume group holding
the root filesystem because the needed modules are missing.

Expected Results:  It shouldn't fail to reboot.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-09-07 18:44:15 UTC

agk -- comments?

Comment 2 Bill Rugolsky, Jr. 2004-09-23 15:30:06 UTC

Please consider this MUST FIX for FC3.  The workaround around is
simple, recovery from a non-startable system volume group is not.

Comment 4 Alasdair Kergon 2004-09-25 22:43:40 UTC

All the dm modules (incl. mirror, snapshot, zero) need to be available
when vgchange -ay gets run; currently the automatic loading code is
inactive (see an old bugzilla entry), so the modules all need to be
loaded before running vgchange -ay in case they are needed - this will
get addressed within LVM2.

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2004-09-27 18:01:40 UTC

This seems a bit broken (and even if you had automatic loading
present, then it wouldn't help as the modules wouldn't be there in the
initrd at present).  

But, since my chances of getting that to change are roughly zero, I'll
add those three to a list to be automatically pulled in.  Will be in
mkinitrd 4.1.14.  And working on the anaconda modifications too since
it'll be needed there as well.

Comment 6 Alexandre Oliva 2004-10-02 19:03:55 UTC

Confirmed fixed, thanks.