On Mon, Apr 24 2017 at 12:05am -0400, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21 2017, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > > > See as example https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983221 > > > > "non-standard" DM targets do not appear to be autoloaded (the problem > > was hit with thin-pool, but it seems to apply to other targets as well). > > "Common" targets (like linear) are provided by dm-mod which seems to be > > autoloaded by virtue of /dev/mapper/control. > > > > Is it expected and intentional? Or are users required to manually load > > necessary modules on boot? > > > > TIA > > > > -andrei > > > > -- > > dm-devel mailing list > > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > > Does this patch fix it for you? > > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c > index 8f811dc8b3cc..d2c6a9a12d75 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c > @@ -4400,3 +4400,4 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(no_space_timeout, "Out of data space queue IO timeout in second > MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DM_NAME " thin provisioning target"); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Joe Thornber <dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx>"); > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > +MODULE_ALIAS("dm-thin-pool"); > > NeilBrown The module is named "dm-thin-pool.ko", so I'm not following why that patch would help. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
