Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB
in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead
I'm not going to worry about 4TB support at this point.
4TB and more will
On Monday 12 January 2009, Bjørn Mork wrote:
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4
EB in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead
I'm not going to worry about
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB
in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead
I'm not going to worry about 4TB support at this point.
I think it would be
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
short: the maximal size of the unlimited partition is specified as
1,000,000,000 in the recipes, and the numbers there mean MBs, so
that's 1000 TB.
OK, but IMO this is more a structural flaw in partman-auto's
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu writes:
Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB
in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead
Of course I meant 4000 TB = 4 PB, not 4 EB here. And wondered the
overhead of compiling dc into busybox, for doing unlimited
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB
in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead
I'm not going to worry about 4TB support at this point.
I think it would be more logical to specify unlimited as 0
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Ferenc Wagner (wf...@niif.hu):
I have no base to decide which is better, but there isn't too much
difference; I can't consider either one wrong.
The following patch contains an unnecessary change as well: lcreate
can use up all
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Ferenc Wagner (wf...@niif.hu):
I have no base to decide which is better, but there isn't too much
difference; I can't consider either one wrong.
The following patch contains an unnecessary change as well: lcreate
can use up all
clone 510544 -1
severity -1 wishlist
retitle -1 Possible simplification of partition/LV size calculation
thanks
On Friday 09 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
To the point: perform_recipe_by_lvm determines free space in binary
kilobytes [kiB] by:
free_size=$(vgs -o vg_free --units k
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clone 510544 -1
Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap
Bug 510544 cloned as bug 511442.
severity -1 wishlist
Bug#511442: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap
Severity set to `wishlist' from `normal
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Friday 09 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
The fix is to use kB units in calculating the free space:
free_size=$(vgs -o vg_free --units K --noheading --nosuffix $VG_name |
sed -e 's/\..*//g'
I have committed and uploaded this change.
Thanks. This
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
I can accept this, but then this BR should not be closed, as the 1 TB
limit (which hit the reporter) remains. People with big disks can
still get huge swaps, as no LV can suck up more than 1 TB.
Sorry if I didn't manage to make that clear
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
I can accept this, but then this BR should not be closed, as the 1 TB
limit (which hit the reporter) remains. People with big disks can
still get huge swaps, as no LV can suck up more than 1 TB.
Sorry if I
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Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap
'reopen' may be inappropriate when a bug has been closed with a version;
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Bug reopened, originator not changed
reopen 510544
thanks
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Of course you may have solved it independently of my musings.
No, I based the patch I committed on the first part of your analysis.
Changing k - K in free size computations as I suggested fixes swap
size with a 100 GB disk,
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
short: the maximal size of the unlimited partition is specified as
1,000,000,000 in the recipes, and the numbers there mean MBs, so
that's 1000 TB.
OK, but IMO this is more a structural flaw in partman-auto's recipe
specification than a bug in
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Thursday 08 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents.
After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on
3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ...
that is, on a 3GB swap, which is correct (300% of
Quoting Ferenc Wagner (wf...@niif.hu):
I have no base to decide which is better, but there isn't too much
difference; I can't consider either one wrong.
The following patch contains an unnecessary change as well: lcreate
can use up all remaining space by itself, there is no reason to work
Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents.
After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on
3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ...
that is, on a 3GB swap, which is correct (300% of the 1GB RAM).
However, it issues
lv_create noc2 swap_1 1406
to create it, thus creating a
On Thursday 08 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents.
After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on
3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ...
that is, on a 3GB swap, which is correct (300% of the 1GB RAM).
However, it issues
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Thursday 08 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents.
After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on
3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ...
that is, on a 3GB swap, which is correct (300% of
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes:
The installer wants to use 33% of diskspace which is 500 G I G A (!)
bytes as swap space
I'm personnally not in position to do such tests (moreover it may
require a knowledge of partman that I'm not usre to have).
For a start, I could reproduce
Even if I change in /lib/partman/recipes/30atomic
96 512 300% linux-swap
to
96 512 128 linux-swap
the size of the swap LV won't drop below 2.8 GB. Also, when it is
left as 300%, the final size does not depend on the size of the system
RAM (tested at 1024 and 128 MB).
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On the other hand, the pseudocode in
installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt gives reasonable results,
so its implementation is probably broken.
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reopen 510544
Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap
Bug reopened, originator not changed.
reassign 510544 partman-auto-lvm
Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap
Bug reassigned from package
reopen 510544
reassign 510544 partman-auto-lvm
thanks
Well, this is a matter of taste and even sometimes religion..:-)
As nothing else went wrong (things were just not fitting your taste),
I therefore close this installation report.
What ?
The installer wants to use 33% of diskspace
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes:
Investigating this might be fairly tricky as it will be difficult to
test our usual way (with virtual machines) as the size of the
installation disk obviously matters here.
I fail to see the problem, virtual disks are the easiest to change
the size
Quoting Ferenc Wagner (wf...@niif.hu):
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes:
Investigating this might be fairly tricky as it will be difficult to
test our usual way (with virtual machines) as the size of the
installation disk obviously matters here.
I fail to see the problem,
Quoting Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org:
Comments/Problems:
The installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap space in my
encrypted volume group.
Could not use the auto partitioner, had to use a manual install...
I don't understand why you had to use a manual partitioning
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: lenny RC1 netinst i386
Date: 02.01.2009
Machine: Shuttle K45
Processor: Celeron 450
Memory: 1GB
Comments/Problems:
The installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap space in my
encrypted volume group.
Could not use the
Quoting kiu (k...@gmx.net):
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: lenny RC1 netinst i386
Date: 02.01.2009
Machine: Shuttle K45
Processor: Celeron 450
Memory: 1GB
Comments/Problems:
The installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap space in my
encrypted
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