Andrei Borzenkov composed on 2016-01-13 10:44 (UTC+0300):
Felix Miata composed:
Or to put it differently - how you determine whether initrd was built using hostonly mode?
Examine the timestamps: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Factory/
This is the dracut.conf file in place prior to the day's zypper update: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Factory/dracut.conf.07
Note it contains hostonly="no" uncommented.
/etc/dracut.conf.d takes precedence and sets hostonly=yes so this line should have no effect.
Then what made the initrd 4X typical size?
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Factory/i0nitrd-4.3.3-5-default1 is the initrd that resulted from using it.
Only today I noticed that dracut.conf has been deprecated, so I did a bit of research, replaced my /etc/dracut.conf version with the .rpmsave version, then did some editing. Intermediate edits have all been lost. This is the final result of editing:
It lives in /etc/dracut.conf.d/ to provide the customizations I thought I would like.
Only after completing the editing did I build the new initrd: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Factory/i0nitrd-4.3.3-5-default2
The original 36562K one is: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Factory/i0nitrd-4.3.3-5-default1
I cannot download either of them, and I still am not sure I understand which one is "bad" one.
Oops. I failed to notice they were -rw-------. Now they're -rw-r--r--. Both are bad in that both cause a boot delay of at least 3 minutes. The older/4X larger one is bad re $SUBJECT.
Whether the original was built after doing some preliminary editing I cannot remember definitively, but I'm pretty sure all edits were done after building the initial.
Andrei Borzenkov composed on 2016-01-13 07:21 (UTC+0300):
@Felix: do you have /etc/multipath.conf on your system? Do you have it in initrd that exhibits this problem? Could you show content of both?
/etc/multipath.conf does not exist. Grepping multipath in lsinitrd output produces no results in the /etc/ tree.
Could you send "journalctl -b" when booting with "bad" initrd?
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