On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> wrote:
On Wed, 27.07.16 21:35, Gilboa Davara (gilboad(a)gmail.com) wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need help trying to debug a weird bug that I'm hitting.
> I've got a server with fairly large storage (>100TB) that needs to
> handle very-small-files.
> Due to performance considerations I decided to split the large array
> into 128 ext4 partitions (rather than use a single xfs partition).
>
> I recently upgraded the server to F24 (w/ kernel 4.5.5, 4.6.4 refuses
> to boot on the machine) and I'm now facing a weird problem: On boot,
> systemd fails to mount all the partition dropping to emergency shell.
>
> At least as far as I can see, udev fails to create some symbolic links
> under /dev/<LVMVGName>, even though it has no issues creating the same
> symbolic links under /dev/mapper/<LVMVGName>-<LVMLGName>_PXX.
> On the other hand systemd still uses the broken /dev/<LVMVGName>
> device units, even though we moved all the entries in fstab to
> /dev/mapper/<LVMVGName>-<LVMLGName>_PXX and manually ran
> systemd-fstab-generator.
LVM questions are best directed to the LVM people, we have very little
experience with that and the LVM ruleset is quite invasively altering
the udev logic.
Lennart
Lennart,
Seems that its indeed lvm related.
(Boot log attached to previous reply mail)
Thanks,
Gilboa