On 03/19/16 08:18, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
On 03/18/2016 10:56 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
On 03/17/2016 12:39 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
On larger installations it is useful to disable automatic LUN
scanning, and only add the required LUNs via udev rules.
This can speed up bootup dramatically.
This patch introduces a new scan module parameter value 'manual',
which works like 'none', but can be overriden by setting the 'rescan'
value from scsi_scan_target to 'SCSI_SCAN_MANUAL'.
And it updates all relevant callers to set the 'rescan' value
to 'SCSI_SCAN_MANUAL' if invoked via the 'scan' option in sysfs.
Hello Hannes,
Will setting scsi_scan_type to 'manual' allow a system to boot from a
SCSI disk? If not, are there alternatives to this approach? Would it be
a valid alternative to e.g. introduce a new threshold parameter such
that only LUN numbers below this threshold are scanned during boot?
I have a patch for dracut, which will generate udev rules for all
devices required for mounting the root fs.
Once the system is booted properly I've got another patch for systemd
which switches back to 'normal' scanning (ie by writing 'sync' into
/sys/modules/scsi_mod/parameters/scan) and rescan all scsi hosts.
With that there's no need to have any arbitrary limits; only the
necessary devices are enabled during boot.
Hello Hannes,
That sounds like a really interesting approach. Will this approach also
work if the SCSI host and/or LUN numbers change during a reboot?
Thanks,
Bart.
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