Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread Frans Pop
I'm just looking at the changes in LVM and RAID and I'm wondering what the status is. How well has the new code been tested? A fairly quick test using the current daily for LVM shows at least three important errors. As we will now be moving towards a new beta release, it would be nice to have

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, June 14, 2006 11:40, Frans Pop said: I'm just looking at the changes in LVM and RAID and I'm wondering what the status is. How well has the new code been tested? I tested it until I could find no more bugs before I committed it to SVN. I also posted to the list asking for review and

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 14:23, David Härdeman wrote: I tested it until I could find no more bugs before I committed it to SVN. I also posted to the list asking for review and comments before committing. The changes for partman-lvm (essentially rewriting and merging lvm-tools.sh from lvmcfg

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Frans Pop wrote: I'm just looking at the changes in LVM and RAID and I'm wondering what the status is. How well has the new code been tested? I had very serious issues with lvm management (Etch d-i beta2 and 2006-06-12). My config looks like the following. RAID 1 /dev/md0 (/dev/sda1,

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:40:00AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: 2. test for existing physical volume name is broken After entering a name for a physical volume I always get a screen saying the name is already in use. The problem seems to be in this code in choose_partition/lvm/do_option: #

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:35:53PM +0200, Christophe Chisogne wrote: By not using root on lvm on raid, I naively thought that it'll avoid boot problems etc, but I was very wrong. 1. partman wanted to update the partition table on /dev/md2, which seemed to lead to big problems (like cat

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:40:00AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I also wonder if the templates asking for the VG name and showing this error should not be critical as no default exists. Is there any reason not to have all the questions and error messages as critical? It is an interactive script

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christophe Chisogne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frans Pop wrote: I'm just looking at the changes in LVM and RAID and I'm wondering what the status is. How well has the new code been tested? I had very serious issues with lvm management (Etch d-i beta2 and 2006-06-12). My config looks like

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?tatus is. How well has the new code been tested?

2006-06-14 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:40:00AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: 1. partman-auto-lvm no longer works If I choose that option there is no error, but nothing actually happens. After some time the main partitioning screen is shown, but no new partitions have been created. And here's the patch that