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# xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk
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[xendomains.service](https://github.com/xen-project/xen/blob/RELEASE-4.13.0/tools/hotplug/Linux/systemd/xendomains.service.in) has problems
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with disks that appear only later in boot process (or even after booting is complete). This project creates a service that
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loops over all disks that domU will use and wait for them to appear.
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xendomains-wait-disk.service launches a script that reads both /etc/xen/auto/ configurations and /var/lib/xen/save/ dumps.
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From those files, it extracts which disks are needed for all domU that will be started (respecting /etc/sysconfig/xendomains
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settings). After that, it simply loops waiting for those disks to appear. There is a timeout (5 min) configured in
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xendomains-wait-disk.service that prevents it to block booting process forever.
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There are two known cases where this project is useful:
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## degraded mdadm RAID
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mdadm RAID are assembled by [udev rules](https://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm/blob/master/udev-md-raid-assembly.rules).
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However, it is only assembled when it is healthy. When a member is still missing, it starts a [timer](https://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm/blob/master/systemd/mdadm-last-resort%40.timer) that will try to assemble the RAID anyway after 30s, even if degraded. This timer does not block xendomains to be started. So, if a domU is depending on a MD RAID that is degraded (i.e. RAID 1 missing one disk), xendomains.service will be started before those 30s passed and that domU will fail.
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An alternative solution would be to add extra hard dependencies to xendomains.service for each required disk (Require=xxx.device). However, this solution introduces another bigger problem. Before, if a single RAID is degraded, only the domU that depends on it will fail. With Require=xxx.device, xendomains will never start if
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a RAID could not be assembled even after 30s (i.e. RAID5 with two missing disks).
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With xendomains-wait-disk.service, xendomains.service will be blocked up to 5 min waiting for those MD RAID used by domUs. If it fails, xendomains.service
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continues anyway.
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## iSCSI disks
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domU that uses iSCSI disk (mapped by host OS) also fails to start during boot. open-iscsi.service returns before it connect to the remote target and rescan
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iscsi disks. As in mdadm RAID case, xendomains.service is started and domU that depends on iSCSI disks will fail.
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