[arch-general] [aur-general] systemd 207 and btrfs

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Jameson <imntreal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Curtis Shimamoto
>> <sugar.and.scruffy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is just a shot in the dark, but what if you were to put the necessary
>>> modules for btrfs in mkinitcpio.conf's MODULES list to have it loaded explicitly
>>> and early?
>>
>> That did it.  I added btrfs, zlib_deflate, and libcrc32a.  I think I
>> had previously needed to add crc32a for a different problem I was
>> having with multi-device btrfs volumes.
>
> For what it is worth, the cause of this bug was that the creation of
> static device nodes (including /dev/btrfs-control) moved from
> systemd-udevd to systemd-tmpfiles, but we forgot to add a call to
> tmpfiles in the udev hook. This has now been fixed and the systemd in
> testing should work with btrfs without the need for adding any modules
> manually.

I consider it as a severe bug. Those who use btrfs on root filesystem
(like me) ended up with unbootable machine after this upgrade. Please
fix it in [core] as soon as possible.