On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 04:28:36PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 4:12 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 01:12:44PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > > * Name: [[User:dkeefe|Dennis Keefe]], [[User:mulhern|Anne Mulhern]],
> > > [[User:jbaublitz|John Baublitz]]
> > > * Email: dke...@redhat.com, amulh...@redhat.com, jbaubl...@redhat.com
> >
> > > == Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
> > >
> > > Stratis symlinks have moved.  Existing symlinks in /stratis/<pool
> > > name>/<filesystem name> will need to be migrated to
> > > /dev/stratis/<pool name>/<filesystem name>.  This is accomplished by
> > > running the migration script (stratis_migrate_symlinks.sh) that comes
> > > with the
> > > 2.2.0 release of Stratis or rebooting the system.  Any configurations
> > > that make use of the old symlink locations will
> > > need to be updated to use the new location.  So, if there has been
> > > manual changes to systemd unit files or /etc/fstab
> > > for automatically mounting Stratis filesystems, then these will need
> > > to be updated to reflect the change.
> >
> > How large is the risk that systems that were using the old /stratis/foo
> > paths will fail to mount the filesystems, and possibly fail to boot, after
> > the upgrade? (Sorry, I have never used stratis, so I don't know how often
> > those migration steps would be necessary.)
> >
> > Shouldn't /startis symlink be created for compatibility on *upgrades* ?
> 
> It's not supported for booting yet. But if there's an fstab entry
> using a path from /stratis, and also doesn't include the nofail or
> noauto mount options, boot can fail waiting indefinitely on a file
> system that won't ever appear

Right, but the question is: how common is that? Do we even have any general
idea how many people are using stratis?

Zbyszek
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