dracut:fstab-sys: Wait for devices specified using --mount option

dracut allows passing --mount option which mounts the specified devices.
But it does not wait for these devices to show up and mounting will fail
if devices do not show up by the time "mount" was called.

I am writing some patches to support kdump on iscsi target and I noticed
that one of the initqueue script was not called as we found the root
device and broke out of main loop.

There are two possible enancements to this patch.

- Introduce a time limited wait (rd.timeout something along the lines of
  rd.retry). That will allow kdump to try to dump to a backup target if
  primary targets fails to come up.

- Wait for UUID= and LABEL= to show up too. Right now kdump converts
  UUID= and LABEL= to respective devices and passes /dev/* to dracut
  --mount option. So I am not introducing the wait for UUID= or LABEL=
 in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

diff --git a/modules.d/95fstab-sys/module-setup.sh b/modules.d/95fstab-sys/module-setup.sh
index 7589d74..56dd8fc 100755 (executable)
--- a/modules.d/95fstab-sys/module-setup.sh
+++ b/modules.d/95fstab-sys/module-setup.sh
@@ -13,4 +13,5 @@ depends() {
 install() {
     [ -f /etc/fstab.sys ] && inst /etc/fstab.sys
     inst_hook pre-pivot 00 "$moddir/mount-sys.sh"
+    inst_hook cmdline 00 "$moddir/wait-mount-dev.sh"
 }

diff --git a/modules.d/95fstab-sys/wait-mount-dev.sh b/modules.d/95fstab-sys/wait-mount-dev.sh
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..99fc16c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules.d/95fstab-sys/wait-mount-dev.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# -*- mode: shell-script; indent-tabs-mode: nil; sh-basic-offset: 4; -*-
+# ex: ts=8 sw=4 sts=4 et filetype=sh
+
+type getarg >/dev/null 2>&1 || . /lib/dracut-lib.sh
+type det_fs >/dev/null 2>&1 || . /lib/fs-lib.sh
+
+fstab_wait_dev() {
+    local _dev _mp _fs _opts _dump _pass _rest
+    test -e "$1" || return 1
+    while read _dev _mp _fs _opts _dump _pass _rest; do
+        [ -z "${_dev%%#*}" ] && continue # Skip comment lines
+        case "$_dev" in
+        /dev/?*)
+            wait_for_dev $_dev;;
+        *) ;;
+        esac
+    done < $1
+    return 0
+}
+
+[ -f /etc/fstab ] && fstab_wait_dev /etc/fstab