On 10-07-15 09:29 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
and the box still won't boot.
The reason FC6 doesn't boot is there is a userspace tool
I believe in the initrd that cares about symlinks when it should
not.
It is not just nash. Also multipathd would fail (as it expects
the /sys/scsi_host/..<something> in certain directories), and 'lsscsi'. There
might be other tools that depend on libsysfs to be affected by this as well.
lsscsi has been "CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2" tolerant
since version 0.21 released 20080710. The current
version is 0.23 released 20091201 which will soon
be displaced by 0.24 to cope with the most recent
breakages.
Writing a user space tool that relies on sysfs structure
and contents, stable over the whole lk 2.6 series, is
impossible. For a history of my pain with lsscsi see
its ChangeLog.
Happily most of my tools are based on an ioctl! SG_IO
was a suggestion from Joerg Schilling and has now found
its way into most block devices. Now it has a new lease
of life in the bsg driver.
Doug Gilbert
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