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Ryan Harper (raharper) wrote : Re: [Bug 1760879] Re: zfsroot fails: FileNotFoundError - [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/disk/by-id'

OK,

The issue here is that we want to follow zfs best-practices here which
means specifying disks by-id;
You don't have those here because your disks don't have serial numbers.

That said, I think we could WARN and accept it; though it does mean
the user is at risk if the drive names
change.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Andreas Hasenack <email address hidden> wrote:
> This is what I have in /dev/disk:
> ubuntu@46-f4:~$ sudo su -
> root@46-f4:~# ls -la /dev/disk
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Apr 3 17:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3600 Apr 3 17:25 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Apr 3 17:25 by-partuuid
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Apr 3 17:25 by-path
> root@46-f4:~# ls -la /dev/disk/by-partuuid/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Apr 3 17:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Apr 3 17:25 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 3 17:25 9ef12100-01 -> ../../vda1
> root@46-f4:~# ls -la /dev/disk/by-path/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Apr 3 17:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Apr 3 17:25 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 3 17:25 pci-0000:00:06.0 -> ../../vda
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 3 17:25 pci-0000:00:06.0-part1 -> ../../vda1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 3 17:25 pci-0000:00:08.0 -> ../../vdb
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 3 17:25 virtio-pci-0000:00:06.0 -> ../../vda
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 3 17:25 virtio-pci-0000:00:06.0-part1 -> ../../vda1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 3 17:25 virtio-pci-0000:00:08.0 -> ../../vdb
>
>
> ** Changed in: curtin
> Status: Incomplete => New
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> Title:
> zfsroot fails: FileNotFoundError - [Errno 2] No such file or
> directory: '/dev/disk/by-id'
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