Re: Fedora 34 Change proposal: Stratis 2.2.0 (Self-Contained Change)

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On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 4:12 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 01:12:44PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > * Name: [[User:dkeefe|Dennis Keefe]], [[User:mulhern|Anne Mulhern]],
> > [[User:jbaublitz|John Baublitz]]
> > * Email: dkeefe@xxxxxxxxxx, amulhern@xxxxxxxxxx, jbaublitz@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> > == Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
> >
> > Stratis symlinks have moved.  Existing symlinks in /stratis/<pool
> > name>/<filesystem name> will need to be migrated to
> > /dev/stratis/<pool name>/<filesystem name>.  This is accomplished by
> > running the migration script (stratis_migrate_symlinks.sh) that comes
> > with the
> > 2.2.0 release of Stratis or rebooting the system.  Any configurations
> > that make use of the old symlink locations will
> > need to be updated to use the new location.  So, if there has been
> > manual changes to systemd unit files or /etc/fstab
> > for automatically mounting Stratis filesystems, then these will need
> > to be updated to reflect the change.
>
> How large is the risk that systems that were using the old /stratis/foo
> paths will fail to mount the filesystems, and possibly fail to boot, after
> the upgrade? (Sorry, I have never used stratis, so I don't know how often
> those migration steps would be necessary.)
>
> Shouldn't /startis symlink be created for compatibility on *upgrades* ?

It's not supported for booting yet. But if there's an fstab entry
using a path from /stratis, and also doesn't include the nofail or
noauto mount options, boot can fail waiting indefinitely on a file
system that won't ever appear

-- 
Chris Murphy
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