ironic-python-agent/releasenotes/notes/4k-block-size-config-drives-4470828dd06d2600.yaml
Julia Kreger b6c263a5dc preserve/handle config drives on 4k block devices
When an underlying block device (or driver) only supports 4KB IO,
this can cause some issues with aspects like using an ISO9660 filesystem
which can only support a maximum of 2KB IO.

The agent will now attempt to mount the filesystem *before* deleting the
supplied file, and should that fail it will mount the configuration drive
file from the ramdisk utilizing a loopback, and then extract the contents
of the ramdisk into a newly created VFAT filesystem which supports 4KB
block IO.

Closes-Bug: #2028002
Change-Id: I336acb8e8eb5a02dde2f5e24c258e23797d200ee
2023-08-24 08:10:22 -07:00

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Fixes a failure case where a deployed instance may be unable to access
the configuration drive post-deployment. This can occur when block
devices only support 4KB IO interactions. When 4KB block IO sizes
are in use, the ISO9660 filesystem driver in Linux cannot be used
as it is modeled around a 2KB block. We now attempt to verify, and
rebuild the configuration drive on a FAT filesystem when we cannot
mount the supplied configuration drive. Operators can force the agent
to write configuration drives using the FAT filesystem using the
``[DEFAULT]config_drive_rebuild`` option.