Bug 855269 - Support for renamed device for kdump
Summary: Support for renamed device for kdump
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kexec-tools
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Young
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 855270
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Reported: 2012-09-07 07:29 UTC by WANG Chao
Modified: 2012-11-05 09:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-11-05 09:09:36 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description WANG Chao 2012-09-07 07:29:02 UTC 
Description of problem:

As discussed[1], kdump need to support to use a renamed block device as the dump target. Suggest to use udev to get the real device node or persistent.

Both fs dump and raw dump target need to be take care of for renamed device or a symbolic ..

[1]: http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/kexec-kdump-list/2012-September/msg00009.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kexec-tools-2.0.3-53.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ln -s /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1-re; mount /dev/sda1-re
2. kdump.conf: ext4 /dev/sda1-re
3. restart kdump service
  
Actual results:
kdump service complains /dev/sda1-re isn't mounted

Expected results:


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