litefile and rc.localdisk not work on Rocky 8.10 for diskless mode

[hmliustc]

• One the xcat server:

1. lsdef -t osimage rocky8.10-x86_64-netboot-compute:

partitionfile=/install/custom/netboot/rocky8.10/cfglocaldisk

2. cat partitionfile=/install/custom/netboot/rocky8.10/cfglocaldisk:

enable=yes
enablepart=yes

[disk]
dev=/dev/sda
clear=yes
fstype=ext4
parts=10,20,30

[localspace]
dev=/dev/sda1
fstype=ext4

3. tabdump policy:

"4.7",,,"litefile",,,,"allow",,
"4.8",,,"litetree",,,,"allow",,
"7.1",,,"getpartition",,,,"allow",,

• On the client:

1. cat /proc/cmdline:

imgurl=http://192.168.106.252:80//install/netboot/rocky8.10/x86_64/compute/rootimg.cpio.gz XCAT=192.168.106.252:3001 NODE=cnode001 FC=0 XCATHTTPPORT=80 LOGSERVER=192.168.106.252 syslog.server=192.168.106.252 syslog.type=rsyslogd syslog.filter=. xcatdebugmode=1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 selinux=0 BOOTIF=01-7c-1c-f1-40-a2-f2

2. cat /.sllocal/log/localdisk.log:

kernel parameter key is: imgurl
kernel parameter key is: XCAT
kernel parameter key is: NODE
kernel parameter key is: FC
kernel parameter key is: XCATHTTPPORT
kernel parameter key is: LOGSERVER
kernel parameter key is: syslog.server
kernel parameter key is: syslog.type
kernel parameter key is: syslog.filter
kernel parameter key is: xcatdebugmode
kernel parameter key is: console
kernel parameter key is: console
kernel parameter key is: selinux
kernel parameter key is: BOOTIF
localdisk: do nothing.

• On the xcat server:

1. modify file '/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.localdisk', add on the line 49:

DOPART="yes"
OS="rh"

2.add below to synclists file:

/install/custom/netboot/rocky8.10/cfglocaldisk' to /install/netboot/rocky8.10/x86_64/compute/rootimg/.sllocal/log/litefile

3. genimage rocky8.10-x86_64-netboot-compute && packimage rocky8.10-x86_64-netboot-compute
4. reboot the client.

• On the client:

1. df

/dev/sda1 989032 152896 768552 17% /.sllocal/localmnt

• On the xcat server:

1. modify file '/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.localdisk', change the line 240:
   'mount -t $fstype $dev $MNTDIR$LOCAL'
   to
   'mount -t $fstype $dev $MNTDIR/tmp'

It does not work.

[hmliustc]

modify file '/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.localdisk', change the line 240:
'mount -t $fstype $dev $MNTDIR$LOCAL'
to
'mount -t $fstype $dev /tmp' not '$MNTDIR/tmp'.

It does not work too.

[viniciusferrao]

The partitionfile is set and has enable=yes, so the config itself is fine.

PARTITION_DOMOUNT_RH never made it into the kernel cmdline though. That parameter gets added when you run nodeset. genimage/packimage only rebuild the root image, they don't touch boot parameters. So if partitionfile was configured after your initial nodeset, the cmdline wouldn't have it.

@hmliustc Did you re-run nodeset after setting the partitionfile attribute? Running nodeset again and rebooting should sort it out.

@Obihoernchen I'd say we close this one, looks like config ordering rather than a bug. What do you think?