Ubuntu
cloud-init package

  1. Bug #1603222
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1603222

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Stephen A. Zarkos (stevez) wrote :

During provisioning cloud-init adds an entry for the ephemeral disk in /etc/fstab. After provisioning this entry is correct and points to "/dev/disk/azure/resource-part1". This symlink is created dynamically by 66-azure-storage.rules.

For some reason after the first reboot cloud-init overwrites the fstab entry and changes the "/dev/disk/azure/resource-part1" to the device name that it points to, i.e. /dev/sdb1. However, this is incorrect since /dev/sd* device names are not persistent.

Repro:

1) Provision an Ubuntu VM on Azure (I tested with 14.04.4)
2) The fstab entry for the ephemeral disk (/mnt) correctly points to "/dev/disk/azure/resource-part1".
3) Reboot the VM (sudo reboot)
4) The fstab entry now incorrectly points to /dev/sdb1 instead of the symlink.

Impact:
There is a chance that the customer's ephemeral disk will not be mounted properly if the device names change after a reboot.