Tools such as lsblk which query the udev database instead of probing
devices directly fail when run on ublk devices. For instance, in the
following commands, the partition type is missing, despite the fact that
/dev/ublkb0 was just partitioned with a single Linux filesystem type
partition.
$ lsblk /dev/ublkb0
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
ublkb0 259:0 0 31.3G 0 disk
└─ublkb0p1 259:1 0 31.2G 0 part
$ lsblk -o pkname,parttype /dev/ublkb0
PKNAME PARTTYPE
ublkb0
This happens because ublk devices are missing from a couple of
whitelists in the udev rules which are responsible for populating the
database with the data lsblk is looking for. Add the ublk devices to
these whitelists.
# watch metadata changes, caused by tools closing the device node which was opened for writing
ACTION!="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="block", \
- KERNEL=="loop*|mmcblk*[0-9]|msblk*[0-9]|mspblk*[0-9]|nvme*|sd*|vd*|xvd*|bcache*|cciss*|dasd*|ubd*|ubi*|scm*|pmem*|nbd*|zd*|rbd*|zram*", \
+ KERNEL=="loop*|mmcblk*[0-9]|msblk*[0-9]|mspblk*[0-9]|nvme*|sd*|vd*|xvd*|bcache*|cciss*|dasd*|ubd*|ubi*|scm*|pmem*|nbd*|zd*|rbd*|zram*|ublkb*", \
OPTIONS+="watch"
ENV{UDEV_DISABLE_PERSISTENT_STORAGE_RULES_FLAG}=="1", GOTO="persistent_storage_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block|ubi", GOTO="persistent_storage_end"
-KERNEL!="loop*|mmcblk*[0-9]|msblk*[0-9]|mspblk*[0-9]|nvme*|sd*|sr*|vd*|xvd*|bcache*|cciss*|dasd*|ubd*|ubi*|scm*|pmem*|nbd*|zd*|rbd*|zram*", GOTO="persistent_storage_end"
+KERNEL!="loop*|mmcblk*[0-9]|msblk*[0-9]|mspblk*[0-9]|nvme*|sd*|sr*|vd*|xvd*|bcache*|cciss*|dasd*|ubd*|ubi*|scm*|pmem*|nbd*|zd*|rbd*|zram*|ublkb*", GOTO="persistent_storage_end"
# ignore partitions that span the entire disk
TEST=="whole_disk", GOTO="persistent_storage_end"