[linux-lvm] [lvm 0.8 final] lvmcreate_initrd fails for me
Les Hazelton
seawolf at attglobal.net
Sat Jan 13 03:51:14 UTC 2001
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Is it possible you are running out of inodes on the ram disk? You can
This is the obviously the reason for the problem. I did a scan of /dev
using [ls /dev | grep -c ""] which produced a number 6261. There are a
huge number if ISDN related entries in /dev. I need to look at removing
them since I don't use ISDN.
> - call the ramdisk initrd-lvm-$VERSION.gz to allow multiple ramdisk
I really like the new name - saves me from changing it by hand ;-)
> Cheers, Andreas
The new lvmcreate_initrd you posted got me running - with a few changes.
I had to shift to the mke2fs command with the -N parm as you suggested.
Even with the -N parm I was still having problems so I rebooted the
system with a 12288k ram disk size and adjusted the script accordingly.
That got everything working.
I also made a change - for testing - so I could see the generated mke2fs
command. I have attached the script as I used it. Thanks for the help.
--
Good Journey, longevity and prosperity to all
Les Hazelton
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (C) 1997 - 2000 Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software
#
# June 1999
# December 1999
# January 2000
# January 2001
#
# LVM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# LVM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with LVM; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
# the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#
#
# Changelog
#
# 16/11/1999 - corrected -N type with mke2fs
# 19/12/1999 - use correct ramdisk size, strip shared library to save space
# 04/01/2000 - support /proc mount, because lvm_dir_cache now uses it
# 01/12/2001 - always create enough inodes in ramdisk for new files
# [AED] - don't try to copy LVM module if LVM is compiled into kernel
# - check all INITRDFILES for library dependencies
# - make commands quiet and avoid redirecting errors to /dev/null
# - use cleanup function for all errors, interrupts, normal exit
#
cmd=`basename $0`
VERSION=$1
[ -z "$VERSION" ] && VERSION=`uname -r`
DEVRAM=/tmp/initrd.$$
INITRD=/boot/initrd-lvm-$VERSION.gz
INITRDSIZE=12288
MODULES=/lib/modules/$VERSION
INITRDFILES="/sbin/modprobe /sbin/vgchange /sbin/vgscan /bin/bash /bin/mount /bin/umount /bin/sh /bin/rm /sbin/insmod $MODULES/modules.dep"
if [ -r $MODULES/kernel/drivers/md/lvm-mod.o ]; then
INITRDFILES="$INITRDFILES $MODULES/kernel/drivers/md/lvm-mod.o"
elif [ -r $MODULES/block/lvm-mod.o ]; then
INITRDFILES="$INITRDFILES $MODULES/block/lvm-mod.o"
elif [ -r $MODULES/block/lvm.o ]; then
INITRDFILES="$INITRDFILES $MODULES/block/lvm.o"
fi
TMPMNT=/tmp/mnt.$$
cleanup () {
[ "`mount | grep $DEVRAM`" ] && umount $DEVRAM
[ -f $DEVRAM ] && rm $DEVRAM
[ -d $TMPMNT ] && rmdir $TMPMNT
exit $1
}
trap "
echo -e 'Bye bye...\n'
cleanup 1
" 1 2 3 15
create_fstab () {
cat << FSTAB > $TMPMNT/etc/fstab
/dev/ram / ext2 defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
FSTAB
chmod 644 $TMPMNT/etc/fstab
}
create_linuxrc () {
cat << LINUXRC > $TMPMNT/linuxrc
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/modprobe lvm-mod
/bin/mount /proc
/sbin/vgscan
/sbin/vgchange -a y
/bin/umount /proc
LINUXRC
chmod 555 $TMPMNT/linuxrc
}
#
# Main
#
echo -e "\nLogical Volume Manager 0.9 by Heinz Mauelshagen 01/12/2001\n"
echo -e "$cmd -- create an LVM initial ram disk $INITRD\n"
# figure out which actual shared libraries we need in our initrd
echo "$cmd -- figuring out shared libraries"
SHLIBS=`ldd $INITRDFILES 2>/dev/null | awk '{if (/=>/) { print $3 }}' |
sort -u`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR figuring out needed shared libraries\n"
exit 1
fi
echo "$cmd -- making ram filesystem"
dd if=/dev/zero of=$DEVRAM count=$INITRDSIZE bs=1024 >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR creating loopback file\n"
cleanup 1
fi
# We could use -N to specify the number of inodes, but this option only
# appeared in mke2fs 1.14 (Jan 1999) so we will avoid it at least for now
NUMINO="`find /dev $SHLIBS $INITRDFILES 2>/dev/null | wc -w`"
#mke2fs -q -F -m0 -N `expr $NUMINO + 64` $DEVRAM $INITRDSIZE
BYTES_PER_INODE=`expr $INITRDSIZE \* 1024 / \( $NUMINO + 64 \)`
#rnCmd="mke2fs -q -F -m0 -i $BYTES_PER_INODE $DEVRAM $INITRDSIZE"
rnCmd="mke2fs -q -F -m0 -N `expr $NUMINO + 64` $DEVRAM $INITRDSIZE"
echo "$cmd -- mke2fs command ["$rnCmd"]"
$rnCmd
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR making ram disk filesystem\n"
cleanup 1
fi
mkdir $TMPMNT
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR making $TMPMNT\n"
cleanup 1
fi
echo "$cmd -- mounting ram filesystem"
mount -oloop $DEVRAM $TMPMNT
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR mounting $DEVRAM on $TMPMNT\n"
cleanup 1
fi
mkdir $TMPMNT/etc $TMPMNT/proc
#
# create new modules configuration to avoid kmod complaining
# about nonexsisting modules.
#
MODCONF=/etc/modules.conf
[ ! -r $MODCONF -a -r /etc/conf.modules ] && MODCONF=/etc/conf.modules
echo "$cmd -- creating new $MODCONF"
MAJ=0
while [ $MAJ -lt 256 ]; do
echo "alias block-major-$MAJ off"
echo "alias char-major-$MAJ off"
MAJ=`expr $MAJ + 1`
done > $TMPMNT/$MODCONF
# to ensure, that modprobe doesn complain about timestamps
echo "$cmd -- creating new modules.dep"
depmod -a $VERSION
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR running depmod\n"
cleanup 1
fi
# copy necessary files to ram disk
echo "$cmd -- copying files to ram disk"
find $INITRDFILES /dev|cpio -pdm --quiet $TMPMNT
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR cpio to ram disk\n"
cleanup 1
fi
echo "$cmd -- copying shared libraries to ram disk"
find $SHLIBS|cpio -Lpdm --quiet $TMPMNT
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR copying needed shared libraries to ram disk\n"
cleanup 1
fi
for lib in $SHLIBS
do
strip $TMPMNT$lib >/dev/null
done
echo "$cmd -- creating new /linuxrc"
create_linuxrc
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR creating linuxrc\n"
cleanup
exit 1
fi
echo "$cmd -- creating new /etc/fstab"
create_fstab
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR creating /etc/fstab\n"
cleanup 1
fi
echo "$cmd -- ummounting ram disk"
umount $DEVRAM
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR umounting $DEVRAM\n"
cleanup 1
fi
echo "$cmd -- creating compressed initrd in $INITRD"
dd if=$DEVRAM bs=1k count=$INITRDSIZE 2>/dev/null | gzip -9 > $INITRD
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo -e "$cmd -- ERROR creating $INITRD\n"
cleanup 1
fi
cleanup 0
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