From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
To: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>,
LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>,
linux-lvm@e1890.dsca.akamaiedge.net,
Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de>,
Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] [PATCH 1/1] pvscan: wait for udevd
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:57:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bcb2eb82-46b3-8e6b-c9b6-56442b4f63a3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f627b3e7a0d16f31ec68cb07b3454e977e8fe1d0.camel@suse.com>
Dne 21. 02. 21 v 21:23 Martin Wilck napsal(a):
> On Fri, 2021-02-19 at 23:47 +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>>
>> Right time is when switch is finished and we have rootfs with /usr
>> available - should be ensured by lvm2-monitor.service and it
>> dependencies.
>
> While we're at it - I'm wondering why dmeventd is started so early. dm-
> event.service on recent installments has only "Requires=dm-
> event.socket", so it'll be started almost immediately after switching
> root. In particular, it doesn't wait for any sort of device
> initialization or udev initialization.
Hi
Dmeventd alone does not depend on lvm2 in any way - it's the lvm2 plugin which
then does all the 'scanning' for VGs/LVs and gets loaded when lvm2 connects to
monitoring socket. That's also why dmeventd belongs to dm subsystem.
Dmeventd is nothing else then a process to check DM devices periodically - and
can be used by i.e. dmraid or others...
So as such it doesn't need any devices - but it needs to be initialized early
so it can accept connections from tools like lvm2 and starts to monitor a
device without delaying command (as lvm2 wait for confirmation device is
monitored).
> I've gone through the various tasks that dmeventd is responsible for,
> and I couldn't see anything that'd be strictly necessary during early
> boot. I may be overlooking something of course. Couldn't the monitoring
As said - during ramdisk boot - monitor shall not be used (AFAIK - dracut is
supposed to use disabled monitoring in it's modified copy of lvm.conf within
ramdisk)
But we want to switch to monitoring ASAP when we switch to rootfs - so the
'unmonitored' window is as small as possible - there are still same 'grey'
areas in the correct logic thought...
Zdenek
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-22 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 11:16 [linux-lvm] [PATCH 1/1] pvscan: wait for udevd Christian Hesse
[not found] ` <f18dff7a-050a-d41d-c643-4616522ba4a0@suse.com>
2021-02-17 8:22 ` Martin Wilck
[not found] ` <20210217130329.7de41147@leda>
2021-02-17 13:38 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-02-18 15:19 ` Martin Wilck
2021-02-18 15:30 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-02-19 9:22 ` Martin Wilck
2021-02-19 16:37 ` David Teigland
2021-02-19 22:47 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2021-02-21 20:23 ` Martin Wilck
2021-02-22 9:57 ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
2021-02-22 13:04 ` Christian Hesse
2021-02-25 16:51 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2021-02-21 20:26 ` Martin Wilck
2021-02-17 13:49 ` Martin Wilck
2021-02-17 19:11 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
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