For Core 4 I patched it to allow kickstart installs the ability to tune
inode denisity on raid volumes. It was pretty much cut-and-past from the
existing partion and lolvol routines.
Hacking anaconda after the fact was no fun. So hopefully this idea will be
received upstream. It tried my patch against HEAD but alas, the kickstart
file parser has left anaconda and evolved.
The solution was to remove the kickstart hunks and write a new patch for
pykickstart. Both patches are below; and *untested* if someone doing
active testing would like to add them to their test cases.
../C
diff -urN anaconda-10.2.1.5.orig/docs/kickstart-docs.txt anaconda-10.2.1.5/docs/kickstart-docs.txt
--- anaconda-10.2.1.5.orig/docs/kickstart-docs.txt 2005-04-27 13:12:56.000000000 -0700
+++ anaconda-10.2.1.5/docs/kickstart-docs.txt 2005-06-16 22:12:50.000000000 -0700
@@ -996,6 +996,12 @@
/etc/fstab file of the installed system and should be enclosed
in quotes.
+ --bytes-per-inode=
+
+ Specifies the size of inodes on the filesystem to be made on
+ the raid array. Not all filesystems support this option, so it
+ is silently ignored for those cases.
+
--noformat
Use an existing RAID device and do not format the RAID array.
diff -urN anaconda-10.2.1.5.orig/partRequests.py anaconda-10.2.1.5/partRequests.py
--- anaconda-10.2.1.5.orig/partRequests.py 2005-05-03 14:21:58.000000000 -0700
+++ anaconda-10.2.1.5/partRequests.py 2005-06-16 22:07:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -560,6 +560,7 @@
def __init__(self, fstype, format = None, mountpoint = None,
raidlevel = None, raidmembers = None,
raidspares = None, raidminor = None,
+ bytesPerInode = 4096,
preexist = 0, chunksize = None):
"""Create a new RaidRequestSpec object.
@@ -571,6 +572,7 @@
raidmembers is list of ids corresponding to the members of the RAID.
raidspares is the number of spares to setup.
raidminor is the minor of the device which should be used.
+ bytesPerInode is the size of the inodes on the filesystem.
"""
# if it's preexisting, the original fstype should be set
@@ -581,6 +583,7 @@
RequestSpec.__init__(self, fstype = fstype, format = format,
mountpoint = mountpoint, preexist = preexist,
+ bytesPerInode = bytesPerInode,
origfstype = origfs)
self.type = REQUEST_RAID
@@ -603,10 +606,12 @@
str = ("RAID Request -- mountpoint: %(mount)s uniqueID: %(id)s\n"
" type: %(fstype)s format: %(format)s badblocks: %(bb)s\n"
+ " bytesPerInode: %(bytesPerInode)s\n"
" raidlevel: %(level)s raidspares: %(spares)s\n"
" raidmembers: %(members)s" %
{"mount": self.mountpoint, "id": self.uniqueID,
"fstype": fsname, "format": self.format, "bb": self.badblocks,
+ "bytesPerInode": self.bytesPerInode,
"level": self.raidlevel, "spares": self.raidspares,
"members": self.raidmembers})
return str
--- pykickstart-0.9/pykickstart/parser.py.raid-inodes 2005-11-16 16:52:56.000000000 -0800
+++ pykickstart-0.9/pykickstart/parser.py 2005-12-05 05:04:32.000000000 -0800
@@ -601,6 +601,8 @@
parser.values.ensure_value(option.dest, "RAID6")
op = KSOptionParser(lineno=self.lineno)
+ op.add_option("--bytes-per-inode", dest="bytesPerInode", action="store",
+ type="int", nargs=1)
op.add_option("--device", action="callback", callback=device_cb,
dest="device", type="string", nargs=1, required=1)
op.add_option("--fsoptions", dest="fsopts")
--- pykickstart-0.9/pykickstart/data.py.raid-inodes 2005-11-03 13:07:54.000000000 -0800
+++ pykickstart-0.9/pykickstart/data.py 2005-12-05 05:14:43.000000000 -0800
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
class KickstartRaidData:
def __init__ (self):
+ self.bytesPerInode = 4096
self.device = ""
self.fsopts = ""
self.fstype = ""
--- pykickstart-0.9/pykickstart/writer.py.raid-inodes 2005-11-01 19:21:31.000000000 -0800
+++ pykickstart-0.9/pykickstart/writer.py 2005-12-05 05:10:43.000000000 -0800
@@ -359,6 +359,8 @@
for raid in self.ksdata.raidList:
str = str + "raid %s" % raid.mountpoint
+ if raid.bytesPerInode != 0:
+ str = str + " --bytes-per-inode=%d" % raid.bytesPerInode
if raid.device != "":
str = str + " --device=%s" % raid.device
if raid.fsopts != "":
