Bug#664604: open-iscsi: No auto-mounting of iscsi devices tagged as _netdev in /etc/fstab

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On Monday 19 March 2012 03:46 PM, Philipp Gysin wrote:

I noticed that the init.d script is not mounting my iscsi device listed in fstab as a _netdev.
The problem seems to be that the properly contacted target is not yet in the /dev tree when mount is called

I added a tiny sleep 0.1 before the mount call and got rid of my problem

Here the patch for /etc/init.d/open-iscsi:
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< if mount -a -O _netdev >/dev/null 2>&1; then

> if sleep 0.1 && mount -a -O _netdev >/dev/null 2>&1; then

That's an okay workaround but not the best solution. Do you have
/dev/.udev ?

I ask because the check we do in Squeeze is based on the presence of
/dev/.udev. Not the best one. If that path is not existent, we do not
settle for devices. Apart from that, I cannot see anything else causing
the issue.

Do you have the resources to check the same on the current version in
Wheezy / Sid ?

Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."








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Hi Ritesh,

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

That's an okay workaround but not the best solution. Do you have
/dev/.udev ?

I do have /dev/.udev - I manually tried to reproduce what is going on and

called "udevdam settle" manually. This one returns but the dev tree is
still not complete, i.e. /dev/sdb does not exist yet when it's time to mount

BTW, sleep 1 is more reliable than sleep 0.1 I found out - and yes, I agree
that this is not the best solution

Greetings,
Philipp


I ask because the check we do in Squeeze is based on the presence of

/dev/.udev. Not the best one. If that path is not existent, we do not
settle for devices. Apart from that, I cannot see anything else causing
the issue.

Do you have the resources to check the same on the current version in
Wheezy / Sid ?

Unfortunately not

Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

Hi Ritesh,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:"></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
</div>That&#39;s an okay workaround but not the best solution. Do you have<br>
/dev/.udev ?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I do have /dev/.udev - I manually tried to reproduce what is going on and called &quot;udevdam settle&quot; manually. This one returns but the dev tree is still not complete, i.e. /dev/sdb does not exist yet when it&#39;s time to mount</div>
<div><br></div><div>BTW, sleep 1 is more reliable than sleep 0.1 I found out - and yes, I agree that this is not the best solution</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings,</div><div>Philipp</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

I ask because the check we do in Squeeze is based on the presence of<br>
/dev/.udev. Not the best one. If that path is not existent, we do not<br>
settle for devices. Apart from that, I cannot see anything else causing<br>
the issue.<br>
<br>
Do you have the resources to check the same on the current version in<br>
Wheezy / Sid ?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately not</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
Ritesh Raj Sarraf<br>
RESEARCHUT - <a href="http://www.researchut.com" target="_blank">http://www.researchut.com</a><br>
&quot;Necessity is the mother of invention.&quot;<br>
<br>
<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br>




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