[rhel6-branch] Fix dasdfmt progress bar. (#1210450)

Samantha N. Bueno sbueno+anaconda at redhat.com
Tue Nov 10 00:05:48 UTC 2015


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 04:18:42PM -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > As a means of performance improvement, dasdfmt now defaults to formatting 10
> > cylinders in one step instead of 01. However, this causes issues with updating
> > the progress bar when dasdfmt is run. So, specify the old size of 01 cylinder
> > formatted in each step. For more details on this dasdfmt feature, see bz1053828.
> > 
> > Resolves: rhbz#1210450
> 
> This'll slow dasd formatting speed back down though, right?  Do we
> instead want to modify the progress bar side of things to expect updates
> of ten cylinders at a time?

It will, yes. This is a more conservative/safe (and lazy) fix. I didn't
really want to mess with the progress bar, but I can give it a whirl
tomorrow and see what I can come up with. Glancing at it, maybe it won't
be so horrible after all.

Samantha


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