On Dec 26, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/26/2012 06:28 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> I can't reproduce this.
>
> Fedora-18-smoke12-x86_64-DVD.iso
> anaconda-18.37.8-1
>
> 1. Three disk, MBR, md RAID level linear.
> 2. VG either totally unallocated, or allocated all or in part to an LV.
> 3. Click on Installation Destination.
> 4. I'm presently with one local disk, sda. I don't see the other two disks
attached.
> 5. Manual Partitioning, under Unknown is 'sda1' described as software RAID.
>
I have to admit that I've only tried RAID-1. That said, it sounds like
anaconda is only seeing one of your drives, which prevents it from
starting the MD-RAID devices.
It's not auto-starting the array on boot from smoke12 DVD. That would seem to be a
problem, yet if it's a raid1 device, anaconda finds an already created LV and lets me
use it, even though in a shell 'cat /proc/mdstat' shows no raid devices running,
and pvscan, vgscan, lvscan see no pvs, vgs, or lvs. So the probing anaconda is doing seems
to be separate from those tools - and I'm going to guess there may be a bug there when
it comes to linear/concat raid during the scanning.
Some regression is in order it looks like.
The UI is confusing though, if you're expecting to manipulate either a VG or LV, in
particular if you don't actually know what physical disks make up the VG. So what
disks do I pick? Ahh, looks like I *must* pick all constituent physical disks. If I
don't, then the Manual Partitioning window sees only a partition on the drive to be
obliterated. It doesn't see the VG or LV.
Chris Murphy