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Comment: Added procedure for running fsck as required at boot

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If it is configured with file system(s) to that should be mounted at boot there are special considerations for two solutions dpending on whether the file systems should be fscked ...

/etc/fstab (fsck not possible)

/etc/fstab is used in the usual way with some special considerations:

  • LABEL or UUID must be used .  This is in case the /dev/sd[a-z]+ name assigned by udev changes from boot to boot.
  • The options must include _netdev.  This ensures that mounting is deferred until the networking daemons (including open-iscsi) are running.
  • The sixth field (fs_passno) must be set to 0.  This disables fsck when mounting via fstab is processed, necessary because the devices are not created until later, when the open-iscsi boot script runs.

/etc/fstab-iscsi (fsck possible)

Create /etc/fstab-iscsi, based on this sample.  The UUID can be found using the blkid command while the iSCSI-backed device is present:

# This is the configuration file for /etc/init.d/mountscsi.sh

# This file follows the same format as /etc/fstab.
# First column: it is strongly recommended that UIDs or LABELs are used.
# dump column: values may be omitted; if they are present they are ignored.
# pass column: 0 disables fsck; any other value (conventionally 1) enables it.

# <special>                               <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
UUID=ff17c31e-eaff-4b49-b5f9-39ec81892e70 /mnt/hd/iSCSI  jfs     defaults           1

Install /etc/init.d/mountscsi.sh by creating the file with read and execute permission for root and writeable only by root (sorry about the formatting; apparently I can't drive Confluence WIKI) ....

No Format
#! /bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mountiscsi
# Required-Start: open-iscsi
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: S
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Mounts file systems based on iSCSI-backed devices
# Description: Mounts file systems based on iSCSI-backed devices.
# As far as practicable, does with /etc/fstab-iscsi what
# mountall.sh does

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 with /etc/fstab.
# In this version only ext* and JFS file systems are 
# supported with fsck before mount.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Charles Atkinson <c@charlesmatkinson.org>

. /lib/init/vars.sh
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
regex='^#|^$'
shopt -s extglob


do_start () {
 log_begin_msg "Mounting iscsi-backed filesystems"$'\n'

 my_fstab=/etc/fstab-iscsi
 [[ -r $my_fstab ]] || { log_failure_msg "Cannot read $my_fstab" exit 1; }

 # For each line of my fstab
 mount_fail=0
 line_n=0
 while read -r special mountpoint type options dump pass spurious
 do
 ((line_n++))
 [[ $special =~ $regex ]] && continue
 [[ $pass = '' ]] && pass=$dump
 if [[ $spurious != '' ]]; then
 log_warning_msg "Spurious data on line $line_n of $my_fstab: $spurious"
 continue
 fi

 # Normalise the special value
 if [[ $special =~ ^LABEL= || $special =~ ^UUID= ]]; then
 buf=$(findfs "$special" 2>&1)
 if (($?>0)); then
 log_warning_msg "Cannot find the file system corresponding to '$special'"
 continue
 fi
 special_norm=$buf
 elif [[ $special =~ ^/dev/ ]]; then
 buf=$(readlink --canonicalize -- "$special" 2>&1)
 if (($?>0)); then
 log_warning_msg "Problems running readlink for $special: $buf" 
 continue
 fi
 special_norm=$buf
 else
 log_warning_msg "Invalid special on $my_fstab, line $line_n: $special"
 continue
 fi
 #echo "DEBUG: special:$special, mountpoint:$mountpoint,type:$type,options:$options, pass:$pass" >&2

 # Check for existing mounts
 mounted_flag=0
 while read -r pm_fs_spec pm_mountpoint _
 do
 if [[ $pm_fs_spec = $special_norm ]]; then
 mounted_flag=1
 log_warning_msg "$special_norm is already mounted on $pm_mountpoint"
 fi 
 done < <(cat /proc/mounts)

 # Run file system check if possible and indicated
 if ((mounted_flag==0)); then
 fsck_flag=0
 case $type in
 ext* )
 tune2fs_out=$(tune2fs -l "$special_norm" 2>&1)
 if (($?>0)); then
 log_warning_msg "Can't list $special_norm file system parameters: $tune2fs_out"
 continue
 fi

 buf=${tune2fs_out##*Filesystem state:*( )}
 filesystem_state=${buf%%$'\n'*}
 [[ $filesystem_state != clean ]] && fsck_flag=1
 #echo "DEBUG: filesystem_state:$filesystem_state" >&2

 buf=${tune2fs_out##*Maximum mount count:*( )}
 max_mount_count=${buf%%$'\n'*}

 buf=${tune2fs_out##*Mount count:*( )}
 mount_count=${buf%%$'\n'*}
 ((mount_count>max_mount_count)) && fsck_flag=1
 #echo "DEBUG: max_mount_count:$max_mount_count, mount_count:$mount_count" >&2

 buf=${tune2fs_out##*Check interval:*( )}
 check_interval=${buf%% *}
 #echo "DEBUG: check_interval:$check_interval" >&2
 if ((check_interval>0)); then
 buf=${tune2fs_out##*Last checked:*( )}
 last_checked=${buf%%$'\n'*}
 #echo "DEBUG: last_checked:$last_checked" >&2
 last_checked_secs=$(date "--date=$last_checked" +%s)
 now=$(date +%s)
 #echo "DEBUG: last_checked_secs:$last_checked_secs, now:$now" >&2
 (((now-last_checked_secs)>check_interval)) && fsck_flag=1
 fi
 ;;
 jfs )
 jfs_tune_out=$(jfs_tune -l "$special_norm")
 if (($?>0)); then
 log_warning_msg "Can't list file system parameters: $jfs_tune_out"
 continue
 fi

 buf=${jfs_tune_out##*JFS state:*([[:space:]])}
 jfs_state=${buf%%$'\n'*}
 #echo "DEBUG: jfs_state:$jfs_state" >&2
 [[ $jfs_state != clean ]] && fsck_flag=1
 ;;
 esac

 if ((fsck_flag==1)); then
 # fsck option -p is OK for fsck.ext[234] and for jfs_fsck`
 fsck -Tp "$special_norm"
 fi
 fi

 # Mount
 mount -t $type -o $options $special $mountpoint || mount_fail=1

 done < <(cat "$my_fstab")

 if ((mount_fail==0)); then
 exit 0
 else
 exit 1
 fi
}


case "$1" in
 start)
 do_start
 ;;
 restart|reload|force-reload)
 echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
 exit 3
 ;;
 stop|"")
 # No-op
 ;;
 *)
 echo "Usage: mountiscsi.sh start" >&2
 exit 3
 ;;
esac

... and creating the required symlinks:

update-rc.d mountiscsi.sh defaults

That will generate two "do not match LSB Default" warnings which can be ignored.

Normal operations

In normal operations the client/initiator should be shut down before the server/target.  Doing otherwise will result in a delayed shutdown by the client/initiator.

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