Control: tags -1 patch
Hi,
On 01-05-2021 22:55, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> One of the change that occured in the kernel side since bullseye that is
> SCSI device probing is now non-deterministic.
>
> We have been bitten by that at $dayjob because we were still relying on
> disks ordering (sda, sdb) in some stuff.
>
> There's a discussion about that in
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/59eedd28-25d4-7899-7c3c-89fe7fdd4...@acm.org/t/
>
> The change occured upstream in kernel 5.3.
How does the attached proposed text look?
Paul
From df7f0fb0480b40306464b9cb38299209577f8220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gevers
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 21:37:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] issues.dbk: scsi order non-deterministic
Closes: #987906
---
en/issues.dbk | 11 +++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index 43c9534e..a763a016 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -408,6 +408,17 @@ data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/some/path/$domain_data/aliases}}
+
+SCSI device probing is non-deterministic
+
+ Due to changes in Linux, the probing of SCSI devices is no
+ longer deteministic. This can be an issue for installations that
+ rely on the disk order. The https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/59eedd28-25d4-7899-7c3c-89fe7fdd4...@acm.org/";>Linux
+ Kernel Mail List suggests two solutions.
+
+
+
Things to do post upgrade before rebooting
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