On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 08:35:22PM +0800, dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Kdump support dump to raw device which could be on top of complex storage > such as multipath and iscsi which are standalone dracut modules. > > Add a --device option to dracut which will add the device to host_devs so > dracut can add the dependent modules automaticlly and enable them in initramfs. > > --device will accept device node name as the param. Last time you mentioned that device should be device node as /dev/sda. I think that can fail due to device renaming. So make sure to specify here that device name here should be persistent device name as generated by udev. (/dev/disk/by-id/* or /dev/disk/by-uuid/*). Thanks Vivek > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Chao Wang <chaowang@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > dracut.8.asc | 3 +++ > dracut.sh | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) > > --- dracut.orig/dracut.sh > +++ dracut/dracut.sh > @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ Creates initial ramdisk images for prelo > --mount "[DEV] [MP] [FSTYPE] [FSOPTS]" > Mount device [DEV] on mountpoint [MP] with filesystem > [FSTYPE] and options [FSOPTS] in the initramfs > + --device "[DEV]" Bring up [DEV] in initramfs > -i, --include [SOURCE] [TARGET] > Include the files in the SOURCE directory into the > Target directory in the final initramfs. > @@ -261,6 +262,7 @@ TEMP=$(unset POSIXLY_CORRECT; getopt \ > --long fscks: \ > --long add-fstab: \ > --long mount: \ > + --long device: \ > --long nofscks: \ > --long ro-mnt \ > --long kmoddir: \ > @@ -327,6 +329,7 @@ while :; do > --fscks) push fscks_l "$2"; shift;; > --add-fstab) push add_fstab_l "$2"; shift;; > --mount) push fstab_lines "$2"; shift;; > + --device) push host_devs "$2"; shift;; > --nofscks) nofscks_l="yes";; > --ro-mnt) ro_mnt_l="yes";; > -k|--kmoddir) drivers_dir_l="$2"; shift;; > --- dracut.orig/dracut.8.asc > +++ dracut/dracut.8.asc > @@ -321,6 +321,9 @@ provide a valid _/etc/fstab_. > Mount _<device>_ on _<mountpoint>_ with _<filesystem type>_ and _<filesystem > options>_ in the initramfs > > +**--device** _<device>_ :: > + Bring up _<device>_ in initramfs, _<device>_ should be the device name > + > **-i, --include** _<SOURCE>_ _<TARGET>_:: > include the files in the SOURCE directory into the > TARGET directory in the final initramfs. If SOURCE is a file, it will be -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
