Package: partman-base Version: 94 Severity: wishlist Hi!
I have tried to improve dmraid support in d-i during the last few days.
What has been done until now:
* improve the dmraid package [1] to fix #374480 and #375413,
* add dmraid support in disk-detect (see #338719).
Attached is a patch that is a small improvement of partman-base support
for dmraid. It only modify definitions.sh:humandev() to add support for
"mirror" devmapper devices.
Other needed changes in partman-base seems mostly related to device
detection (in init.d/parted) where disks under dmraid should be
filtered out of the listed devices.
Other missing changes in the debian-installer are:
* debian-installer-utils/list-devices (and maybe udevinfo)
Detection for disks and partitions should be added + filtering of
devices under dmraid.
* grub-installer (and possibly lilo-installer).
[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/utnubu-maintainers/2006-September/000318.html
Regards,
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Jérémy
Index: debian/partman-base.templates
===================================================================
--- debian/partman-base.templates (revision 40924)
+++ debian/partman-base.templates (working copy)
@@ -285,6 +285,10 @@
Type: text
_Description: Encrypted volume (%s)
+Template: partman/text/dmraid_volume
+Type: text
+_Description: Software RAID %s (%s)
+
Template: partman/text/lvm_lv
Type: text
_Description: LVM VG %s, LV %s
Index: definitions.sh
===================================================================
--- definitions.sh (revision 40924)
+++ definitions.sh (working copy)
@@ -703,6 +703,13 @@
mapping=${1#/dev/mapper/}
db_metaget partman/text/dmcrypt_volume description
printf "$RET" $mapping
+ elif [ $type = mirror ]; then
+ device=${1#/dev/mapper/}
+ name=$(echo "$device" | cut -d_ -f2)
+ desc=$(dmraid -s -c -c "$device")
+ type=$(echo "$desc" | cut -d: -f4)
+ db_metaget partman/text/dmraid_volume description
+ printf "$RET" $name $type
else
# LVM2 devices are found as /dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv>. If the vg
# or lv contains a dash, the dash is replaced by two dashes.
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