Re: FAI setup for BeeGFS with ZFS, Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 10:05:09 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:03:04 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > > said: > > > Still, FAI doesn't seem to offer an option to handle unpartitioned > disks to > > be formatted as ext4 (I couldn't find any documentation involving

FAI setup for BeeGFS with ZFS, Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:03:04 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Still, FAI doesn't seem to offer an option to handle unpartitioned disks to > be formatted as ext4 (I couldn't find any documentation involving "raw-disk" Here's an example line: raw-disk / 4GB ext4 rw createopt

FAI setup for BeeGFS with ZFS, Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-24 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi, On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 17:37:38 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:34:33 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > > said: > > > Bad news: I just learned that the systems will get CentOS installed. > > While there's still an option to replace the system disks, and run >

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-22 Diskussionsfäden Robert Markula
Am 19.01.2018 um 16:34 schrieb Steffen Grunewald: > On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 18:21:03 +0100, Robert Markula wrote: >> Am 18.01.2018 um 14:19 schrieb Thomas Lange: >>> I guess it would be fine if you could publish your zfs hooks here on >>> the list. Others may be interested in them. >> Yes, that woul

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:04:27 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > dracut* zfs-dracut* > The following NEW packages will be installed: > initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-core klibc-utils libaio1 > libboost-iostreams1.62.0

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi, On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 16:23:03 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:08:32 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > > said: > > > Talking about "path" - is there a trick to get multipath-tools installed > > in the nfsroot? All my attempts fail due to initramfs not cooperat

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:34:33 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Bad news: I just learned that the systems will get CentOS installed. > While there's still an option to replace the system disks, and run > another installation (Debian 9 via FAI) I'm afraid that will void

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-19 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 18:21:03 +0100, Robert Markula wrote: > Am 18.01.2018 um 14:19 schrieb Thomas Lange: > > I guess it would be fine if you could publish your zfs hooks here on > > the list. Others may be interested in them. > > Yes, that would be nice. My impression is that nextgen fault toler

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Robert Markula
Am 18.01.2018 um 14:19 schrieb Thomas Lange: > I guess it would be fine if you could publish your zfs hooks here on > the list. Others may be interested in them. Yes, that would be nice. My impression is that nextgen fault tolerant filesystems like btrfs and ZFS are gaining popularity, last but no

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:08:32 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Talking about "path" - is there a trick to get multipath-tools installed > in the nfsroot? All my attempts fail due to initramfs not cooperating > with dracut. Just add the packages to /etc/fai/NFSROOT. Then t

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 14:19:24 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:09:49 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > > said: > > > Thanks. Since the "find" command returns an unsorted list, how do you > make sure > > you get the right order? > I do not care, since I only match

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:09:49 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Thanks. Since the "find" command returns an unsorted list, how do you make sure > you get the right order? I do not care, since I only match on the model type of the disk, not exactly which disk. You could use the

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 13:12:24 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:40:16 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > > said: > > > 1. Is it possible to map "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:11.4-ata-1" to > >"disk1" (etc.) for easier reference later? > Yes. I use a script class

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:40:16 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > 1. Is it possible to map "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:11.4-ata-1" to >"disk1" (etc.) for easier reference later? Yes. I use a script class/99-disklist.sh for changing the list of disks to my local meeds. The

Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hello, I'm still planning my installation, and found that a future storage server may move its /dev/sd* devices around if another JBOD is connected. I want to access the internal disks, of course, and set them up as softRAID. 1. Is it possible to map "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:11.4-ata-1" to