Alright, summarizing this so far, we have the following fixes landed in Groovy:
udev (systemd pkg): - 60-persistent-storage.rules: skip_bcache_fs_type: - /dev/disk/by-uuid/_ and /dev/disk/by-label/_ not created for bcache devs Since it does not make sense to have the caching device symlink like if it was a regular filesystem disk to be used: (k)rafaeldtinoco@bcache:~$ ls -lah /dev/disk/by-uuid total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Jul 21 18:49 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 140 Jul 21 17:39 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 21 17:39 022E-07E1 -> ../../vda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 21 18:49 50b98f0d-c0e0-49d2-9856-8ac6bc91e232 -> ../../bcache0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 21 17:39 67993d4f-fa55-49b1-886e-c692f88393ba -> ../../vda2 - 69-bcache.rules: - if any other driver - than bcache - touches /dev/bcache[0-9]* bcache/by-uuid/_ (BCACHE_CACHED_UUID and LABEL) symlinks are recreated. To address the udev event responsible for wiping /dev/bcache/by-uuid, like: KERNEL[4175.725930] change /devices/virtual/block/bcache0 (block) ACTION=change DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/block/bcache0 SUBSYSTEM=block SYNTH_UUID=0 DEVNAME=/dev/bcache0 DEVTYPE=disk SEQNUM=6746 MAJOR=251 MINOR=0 UDEV [4175.758078] change /devices/virtual/block/bcache0 (block) ACTION=change DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/block/bcache0 SUBSYSTEM=block SYNTH_UUID=0 DEVNAME=/dev/bcache0 DEVTYPE=disk SEQNUM=6746 USEC_INITIALIZED=4151438558 ID_FS_UUID=50b98f0d-c0e0-49d2-9856-8ac6bc91e232 ID_FS_UUID_ENC=50b98f0d-c0e0-49d2-9856-8ac6bc91e232 ID_FS_VERSION=1.0 ID_FS_TYPE=ext4 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem MAJOR=251 MINOR=0 DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-uuid/50b98f0d-c0e0-49d2-9856-8ac6bc91e232 TAGS=:systemd: -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861941 Title: bcache by-uuid links disappear after mounting bcache0 Status in bcache-tools package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in bcache-tools source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in systemd source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in bcache-tools source package in Focal: Confirmed Status in systemd source package in Focal: Triaged Bug description: 1. root@ubuntu:~# lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch) Release: 20.04 2. root@ubuntu:~# lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch) Release: 20.04 root@ubuntu:~# apt-cache policy linux-image-virtual linux-image-virtual: Installed: 5.4.0.12.15 Candidate: 5.4.0.12.15 Version table: *** 5.4.0.12.15 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status root@ubuntu:~# apt-cache policy linux-image-5.4.0-12-generic linux-image-5.4.0-12-generic: Installed: 5.4.0-12.15 Candidate: 5.4.0-12.15 Version table: *** 5.4.0-12.15 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3. mount /dev/bcache0 && ls -al /dev/bcache/by-uuid/ + ls -al /dev/bcache/by-uuid/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Feb 4 23:31 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Feb 4 23:31 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 4 23:31 abdfd1f6-44ce-4266-91db-24667b9ae51a -> ../../bcache0 4. root@ubuntu:~# ls -al /dev/bcache/by-uuid ls: cannot access '/dev/bcache/by-uuid': No such file or directory ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: linux-image-5.4.0-12-generic 5.4.0-12.15 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-12.15-generic 5.4.8 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Feb 4 23:31:52 2020 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=C.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: linux-signed-5.4 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcache-tools/+bug/1861941/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp