[pve-devel] [PATCH zfsonlinux v2 1/3] zfs-initramfs: add patch to avoid activating all LVs at boot

[Fabian Grünbichler]

> Friedrich Weber <f.weber at proxmox.com> hat am 07.03.2025 10:52 CET geschrieben:
> 
>  
> zfs-initramfs ships an initramfs-tools boot script that
> unconditionally activates all LVs on boot. This can cause issues if
> the LV resides on a shared LVM VG on top of a shared LUN, in
> particular Fibre Channel / directed-attached SAS LUNs, as these are
> usually visible at boot time. See bug #4997 [1] for more details.
> 
> To avoid this, patch zfs-initramfs such that it performs LVM
> autoactivation instead. Thus, it honors the `--setautoactivation n`
> flag that is normally used to disable autoactivation during boot for
> particular VGs/LVs.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4997
> 
> Signed-off-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber at proxmox.com>

Consider this:

Reviewed-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com>

also for the purpose of submitting upstream ;)

> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     new in v2
>     
>     I'm also planning on sending the inner patch upstream, well post here
>     once I do.
> 
>  ...s-use-LVM-autoactivation-for-activat.patch | 49 +++++++++++++++++++
>  debian/patches/series                         |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 debian/patches/0012-contrib-initramfs-use-LVM-autoactivation-for-activat.patch
> 
> diff --git a/debian/patches/0012-contrib-initramfs-use-LVM-autoactivation-for-activat.patch b/debian/patches/0012-contrib-initramfs-use-LVM-autoactivation-for-activat.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..e51096d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/debian/patches/0012-contrib-initramfs-use-LVM-autoactivation-for-activat.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
> +From 3726c500deffadce1012b5c5ccf19515bb58bdbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Friedrich Weber <f.weber at proxmox.com>
> +Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 11:44:36 +0100
> +Subject: [PATCH] contrib/initramfs: use LVM autoactivation for activating VGs
> +
> +Currently, the zfs initramfs-tools boot script under local-top calls
> +`vgchange -ay`, which unconditionally activates all logical volumes
> +(LVs) in all discovered volume groups (VGs). This causes all LVs to be
> +active after boot. However, users may prefer to not activate certain
> +VGs/LVs on boot. They might normally use the `--setautoactivation n`
> +VG/LV flag or the `auto_activation_volume_list` LVM config option to
> +achieve this, but since the script unconditionally activates all LVs,
> +neither has an effect.
> +
> +To fix this, call `vgchange -aay` instead. This triggers LVM
> +autoactivation, which honors autoactivation settings such as the
> +`--setautoactivation` flag. It is also more in line with the LVM
> +documentation, which says autoactivation is "meant to be used by
> +activation commands that are run automatically by the system" [1].
> +
> +Note that this change might break misconfigured setups that have ZFS
> +on top of an LV for which autoactivation is disabled.
> +
> +[1] https://gitlab.com/lvmteam/lvm2/-/blob/cff93e4d/conf/example.conf.in#L1579
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber at proxmox.com>
> +---
> + contrib/initramfs/scripts/local-top/zfs | 4 ++--
> + 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> +
> +diff --git a/contrib/initramfs/scripts/local-top/zfs b/contrib/initramfs/scripts/local-top/zfs
> +index 6b80e9f43..fc455077e 100755
> +--- a/contrib/initramfs/scripts/local-top/zfs
> ++++ b/contrib/initramfs/scripts/local-top/zfs
> +@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ activate_vg()
> +                 return 1
> +         fi
> + 
> +-        # Detect and activate available volume groups
> ++        # Detect and auto-activate available volume groups
> +         /sbin/lvm vgscan
> +-        /sbin/lvm vgchange -a y --sysinit
> ++        /sbin/lvm vgchange -aay --sysinit
> +         return $?
> + }
> + 
> +-- 
> +2.39.5
> +
> diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
> index 229027f..71e830f 100644
> --- a/debian/patches/series
> +++ b/debian/patches/series
> @@ -9,3 +9,4 @@
>  0009-arc-stat-summary-guard-access-to-freshly-introduced-.patch
>  0010-Fix-nfs_truncate_shares-without-etc-exports.d.patch
>  0011-zpool-status-tighten-bounds-for-noalloc-stat-availab.patch
> +0012-contrib-initramfs-use-LVM-autoactivation-for-activat.patch
> -- 
> 2.39.5
> 
> 
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