[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node] Bootup mounts the local log partition if it exists
Bryan Kearney
bkearney at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 20:21:13 UTC 2009
Looking for Alan's input below
Perry Myers wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Perry Myers wrote:
>>> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>>>> Perry Myers wrote:
>>>>> The logs-backup directory is just to catch any logs that get
>>>>> created between the system starting and ovirt-early coming up,
>>>>> correct? Should be minimal messages and dmesg output probably.
>>>>> Any way to get the log partition mounted earlier than ovirt-early
>>
>>
>> So.. I dont know the use case well enough. Is the annoyance of the
>> error message better/worse then a good documented step?
>
> We can do the following... in the Node kickstart %post we can edit the
> rc.sysinit script to (very early in script execution where it normally
> does the remount of all drives in /etc/fstab) mount specific Node
> partitions like /var/log and /data. We can check to make sure the
> partition exists before trying to mount it, and only show an error if
> the partition exists and it failed to mount it.
>
> Make sense? Alan mentioned that rc.sysinit has some hooks that we might
> be able to leverage to get around modifying the actual script.
So.. Alan.. were you thinking a custom module in /etc/sysconfig/modules
which basically calls mount_config and mount_logs from the ovirt
functions directory?
-- bk
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