Control: tags -1 patch Hi, On 01-05-2021 22:55, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > One of the change that occured in the kernel side since bullseye that is > SCSI device probing is now non-deterministic. > > We have been bitten by that at $dayjob because we were still relying on > disks ordering (sda, sdb) in some stuff. > > There's a discussion about that in > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/59eedd28-25d4-7899-7c3c-89fe7fdd4b43@acm.org/t/ > > The change occured upstream in kernel 5.3. How does the attached proposed text look? Paul
From df7f0fb0480b40306464b9cb38299209577f8220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 21:37:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] issues.dbk: scsi order non-deterministic
Closes: #987906
---
en/issues.dbk | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index 43c9534e..a763a016 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -408,6 +408,17 @@ data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/some/path/$domain_data/aliases}}
</para>
</section>
+ <section id="scsi-non-deterministic">
+ <title>SCSI device probing is non-deterministic</title>
+ <para>
+ Due to changes in Linux, the probing of SCSI devices is no
+ longer deteministic. This can be an issue for installations that
+ rely on the disk order. The <ulink
+ url="https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/59eedd28-25d4-7899-7c3c-89fe7fdd4b43@acm.org/";>Linux
+ Kernel Mail List</ulink> suggests two solutions.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="before-first-reboot">
<title>Things to do post upgrade before rebooting</title>
<!-- If there is nothing to do -->
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