On 2016-03-16 12:18 PM, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
Hi all!
This is a heads up for you that we've found an issue [1] in IPA that
changes the behavior for those of you with several hard drives. The
difference is in the way our ramdisks pick the root device for
deployment, when no root device hints [2] are provided. Namely:
- The old ramdisk picked the first available device from the list of
device names in the "disk_devices" configuration option [3]. In practice
it usually meant the first disk was chosen. Note that this approach was
error-prone, as disk ordering is, generally speaking, not guaranteed by
Linux.
- IPA ignores the "disk_devices" option completely and picks the
smallest device larger than 4 GiB.
It is probably too late to change the IPA behavior to be more
compatible, as a lot of folks are already relying on it. So we decided
to raise this issue and get feedback on the preferred path forward.
I think relying on Linux device ordering isn't reliable enough to use in
this case. Furthermore, defining the list of devices to be used as
system disk in ironic.conf can only work if you have a homogeneous pool
of machines.
The proper way to specify the system disk to be used is the root_device
node property [1]. This ends up being passed to IPA via boot parameters.
I suggest instead that this change of default behavior be noted in the
release notes and the config entry for disk_devices under [pxe] be removed.
Finally, is there anyone who relies on the old ramdisk default and who
can tell us their use case? Would the root_device approach work for you?
Did you intentionally configure disk_devices?
Mathieu
[1]
https://github.com/openstack/ironic/blob/master/ironic/drivers/modules/deploy_utils.py#L679
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