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Bug 921235 - thin_check, thin_dump and thin_restore must be copied into the initramfs if root LV is using thin provisioning
Summary: thin_check, thin_dump and thin_restore must be copied into the initramfs if r...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dracut
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: dracut-maint
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-13 18:37 UTC by Mike Snitzer
Modified: 2014-06-13 13:01 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: dracut-027-81.git20130531.fc19
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 13:01:32 UTC
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Description Mike Snitzer 2013-03-13 18:37:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
lvm2 uses /sbin/thin_check when activating a thinly provisioned volume; if the program isn't available the thinp LV will not be activated.

In the future lvm2 will also automate some repair of a thinly provisioned LV that fails thin_check.  The /sbin/thin_dump and /sbin/thin_restore utilities are needed for repair.

So all 3 binaries (provided by the 'device-mapper-persistent-data' package) should be copied into the initramfs if the root LV is thinly provisioned.

One easy way to tell if an LV is thinly provisioned is if it uses the "thin" segment type, e.g.:

# /sbin/lvs --noheadings -o segtype /dev/rhel/thin
  thin
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2013-05-30 10:05:24 UTC 
commit 57937cf480c8e612edae5b00d978dce84fd83be9
Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2013-05-31 08:23:11 UTC 
dracut-027-81.git20130531.fc19
Comment 3 Jan Stodola 2014-01-30 12:00:40 UTC 
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q dracut
dracut-033-85.el7.x86_64
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lvs --noheadings -o segtype /dev/mapper/rhel-root
  thin
[root@localhost ~]# mount | grep ' / '
/dev/mapper/rhel-root on / type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lvs --noheadings -o segtype /dev/mapper/rhel-root
  thin
[root@localhost ~]# lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-78.el7.x86_64.img | grep thin
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     root        15552 Jan 22 08:34 usr/lib64/device-mapper/libdevmapper-event-lvm2thin.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           44 Jan 30 06:49 usr/lib64/libdevmapper-event-lvm2thin.so -> device-mapper/libdevmapper-event-lvm2thin.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1737 Dec 28 02:16 usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/gr928-8x16-thin.psfu.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        85601 Jan 21 18:25 usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-78.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/md/dm-thin-pool.ko
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       375264 Dec 27 14:40 usr/sbin/thin_check
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      2153832 Dec 27 14:40 usr/sbin/thin_dump
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      2153864 Dec 27 14:40 usr/sbin/thin_repair
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      2149688 Dec 27 14:40 usr/sbin/thin_restore
[root@localhost ~]#

Moving to VERIFIED.
Comment 4 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 13:01:32 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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