[anaconda/blivet][master/rhel7-branch] DASD storage re-write, take II

Jan Stodola jstodola at redhat.com
Tue Feb 25 15:49:34 UTC 2014


On 02/25/2014 03:57 PM, Samantha N. Bueno wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:06:53PM +0100, Jan Stodola wrote:
>> Samantha,
>> does it mean that anaconda will format all unformatted disks without
>> asking? It looks so from the video and in my opinion this should not
>> happen, anaconda should ask.
> All disks, no; just the ones which are selected. Since one could have
> many disks which are unformatted, and since it is time-consuming to run
> dasdfmt especially as your number of disks grows, it was decided to not
> blanket dasdfmt all of them, especially since a user might not wish to
> use all of them.

I meant a bit different issue - I will describe better:

The main hub says "We won't touch your disks until you click 'Begin 
Installation'". In the Installation Destination spoke you selected 4 
disks and clicked "Done". What happened: anaconda started formatting 
selected unformatted disks - immediately, without any warning! What I 
would expect to see is a window saying something like:

---------------------------------------------------------------
There are 2 uninitialized DASD devices selected:
/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.3627
/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.3727

To continue installation, the devices must be formatted. Formatting will 
remove any data on these devices.
Format uninitialized DASD devices?

<Cancel> <Format>
----------------------------------------------------------------

Cancel will return to the Initial Destination spoke without formatting, 
OK (or Format?) button will start the formatting.


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