On 2015-05-02 16:58, Andreas Kloeckner wrote:
That does exist, and it appears to be doing its job, but it comes from
the bcache-tools package. That's not entirely what I'm talking about
though. I'm more concerned about an annoying bootstrap issue that I've
faced multiple times when installing Debian onto a bcache volume.
Here's
what I currently have to do:
- Format as bcache using some live system
- Reboot into d-i.
- From within the debian installer, unpack bcache.ko out of the
installer's kernel .deb, insmod it.
- Register the bcache, install to it.
- Reboot into the new system. Oops, boot fails, because there's no
bcache.ko. Back to a live system, drop the right bcache.ko into
/boot,
reboot, insmod it, register the bcache, boot. (*)
- Then install bcache-tools, and things start looking up.
(*) This step is the most annoying, and what I'd like to see
fixed. Alternatively, if d-i understood that I'm installing onto bcache
and installed bcache-tools, my problem would also be solved...
Ah, yes, so it's all about the installer. That was not obvious to me
from the original bug report. Ideally I'd like to see full installer
support but I don't know how much effort is involved. It is something
that has been on my personal TODO list, and will get tackled sometimes
now that jessie is out of the door.
Thanks,
~David
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