Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 998710
Add LVM support for /boot.
Last modified: 2017-09-26 13:42:43 EDT
Add LVM support for /boot. LVM already added pvcreate --embeddingareasize and pvs -o +ea_start,ea_size to create an embedding area within a PV and reports it via pvs (the embedding area start is subject to alignment and it's calculated by LVM tools). Grub can use this space that is specifically reserved for external tools to embed their data/metadata. The aim is to remove a need for partitions (also GPT's "boot" type partition) and also have a way to reserve a space that LVM will not touch at all and which can be exclusively used by external tools. This bug covers the remaining work needed on the LVM/grub interface for full /boot support.
Would like to see this as well. Also, would this be an enabler for other activities such as booting from a snapshot with a grub menu item?
This would be a great feature allowing RHEL 7 to use only LVM and no old-school partitions. This would provide much greater flexibility with disk imaging and our own RHEL cloud images which currently do not use lvm for /dev/sda. So if I deploy a cloud image, I cannot easily resize the disk limiting my flexibility in use the cloud image as a gold image foundation for my deployments.
Deferring to RHEL 7.5.
> This would provide much greater flexibility with disk imaging and our own RHEL > cloud images which currently do not use lvm for /dev/sda. So if I deploy a > cloud image, I cannot easily resize the disk limiting my flexibility in use the > cloud image as a gold image foundation for my deployments. I can understand the limitation here, in terms of conventional partitions not allowing straightforward resize, but it's not quite clear to me why being able to place /boot on LVM2 would fix it? What's the restriction that prevents the cloud images from using LVM devices on sda in this scenario? (with a conventional partition for /boot as in a regular installation).
We would like to add more boot time features, like booting to a snapshot (or group of snapshots); but eliminating /boot is a tall order - especially with UEFI booting. This may never happen and certainly won't happen in RHEL7.