Public bug reported:
I have two lvm volumes (/dev/mapper/raid-btrfs and /dev/mapper/fast-
btrfs) in two different volume groups. I have created a btrfs (raid1)
filesystem on top of them and that's my root filesystem.
If i define it by UUID in the root= kernel argument, i just hit bug
#1574333. Forcing my root to "/dev/mapper/fast-btrfs" by defining
GRUB_DEVICE in /etc/default/grub works around that bug.
The problem now is that initrd is only activating the device given as
root= argument, leaving the other inactive; consequently the btrfs mount
fails to find its second device and the system fails to boot giving up
at initramfs prompt.
Manually adding a line to activate also 2nd device at the bottom of
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm2 and rebuilding the
initramfs works around this issue too, but i suppose my mods will be
washed away by next package upgrade.
Here is the result:
> activate "$ROOT"
> activate "$resume"
> activate "/dev/mapper/raid-btrfs"
Proposed solution:
I understand this is an uncommon setup and correctly handling multidevice LVM
roots is complicated, please just add a configuration option to manually
define/append the list of volume groups to be activated at initrd time.
** Affects: lvm2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
I have two lvm volumes (/dev/mapper/raid-btrfs and /dev/mapper/fast-
btrfs) in two different volume groups. I have created a btrfs (raid1)
filesystem on top of them and that's my root filesystem.
- If i define it bu UUID in the root= kernel argument, i just hit bug
+ If i define it by UUID in the root= kernel argument, i just hit bug
#1574333. Forcing my root to "/dev/mapper/fast-btrfs" by defining
GRUB_DEVICE in /etc/default/grub works around that bug.
The problem now is that initrd is only activating the device given as
root= argument, leaving the other inactive; consequently the btrfs mount
fails to find its second device and the system fails to boot giving up
at initramfs prompt.
Manually adding a line to activate also 2nd device at the bottom of
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm2 and rebuilding the
initramfs works around this issue too, but i suppose my mods will be
washed away by next package upgrade.
Here is the result:
> activate "$ROOT"
> activate "$resume"
> activate "/dev/mapper/raid-btrfs"
Proposed solution:
I understand this is an uncommon setup and correctly handling multidevice LVM
roots is complicated, please just add a configuration option to manually
define/append the list of volume groups to be activated at initrd time.
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LVM initrd fails to activate btrfs multidevice root
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