Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2018 09:32:45 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nvme: create 'paths' entries for hidden controllers |
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 04:17:20PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > When using initramfs-tools with only the necessary dependencies to mount > the root filesystem, it will fail to include nvme drivers for a root on a > multipath nvme. That happens because the slaves relationship is not > present. > > As discussed in [1], using slaves will break lsblk, because the slaves are > hidden from userspace, that is, they have no real block device, just an > entry under sysfs. > > Introducing the paths subdir and using that on initramfs-tools makes it > possible to now boot a system with nvme multipath as root.
Do we need documentation how these paths links are supposed to work? Who is going to parse them?
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