VDO device fails to start after a reboot

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • VDO start command fails with the below error:
vdo: ERROR - Could not set up device mapper for testvdo
vdo: ERROR - vdodumpconfig: Failed to make FileLayer from '/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-x' with No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • VDO

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