Chapter 33. Configuring an FCoE Interface to Automatically Mount at Boot
Note
The instructions in this section are available in
/usr/share/doc/fcoe-utils-version/README
as of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. Refer to that document for any possible changes throughout minor releases.
You can mount newly discovered disks via
udev
rules, autofs
, and other similar methods. Sometimes, however, a specific service might require the FCoE disk to be mounted at boot-time. In such cases, the FCoE disk should be mounted as soon as the fcoe
service runs and before the initiation of any service that requires the FCoE disk.
To configure an FCoE disk to automatically mount at boot, add proper FCoE mounting code to the startup script for the
fcoe
service. The fcoe
startup script is /etc/init.d/fcoe
.
The FCoE mounting code is different per system configuration, whether you are using a simple formatted FCoE disk, LVM, or multipathed device node.
Example 33.1. FCoE mounting code
The following is a sample FCoE mounting code for mounting file systems specified via wild cards in
/etc/fstab
:
mount_fcoe_disks_from_fstab() { local timeout=20 local done=1 local fcoe_disks=($(egrep 'by-path\/fc-.*_netdev' /etc/fstab | cut -d ' ' -f1)) test -z $fcoe_disks && return 0 echo -n "Waiting for fcoe disks . " while [ $timeout -gt 0 ]; do for disk in ${fcoe_disks[*]}; do if ! test -b $disk; then done=0 break fi done test $done -eq 1 && break; sleep 1 echo -n ". " done=1 let timeout-- done if test $timeout -eq 0; then echo "timeout!" else echo "done!" fi # mount any newly discovered disk mount -a 2>/dev/null }
The
mount_fcoe_disks_from_fstab
function should be invoked after the fcoe
service script starts the fcoemon
daemon. This will mount FCoE disks specified by the following paths in /etc/fstab
:
/dev/disk/by-path/fc-0xXX:0xXX /mnt/fcoe-disk1 ext3 defaults,_netdev 0 0 /dev/disk/by-path/fc-0xYY:0xYY /mnt/fcoe-disk2 ext3 defaults,_netdev 0 0
Entries with
fc-
and _netdev
sub-strings enable the mount_fcoe_disks_from_fstab
function to identify FCoE disk mount entries. For more information on /etc/fstab
entries, refer to man 5 fstab
.
Note
The
fcoe
service does not implement a timeout for FCoE disk discovery. As such, the FCoE mounting code should implement its own timeout period.