dcantrell's testing/debugging work on the new anaconda storage code Last updated: 01-Mar-2009 <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/storage/ With dlehman's latest code on anaconda-storage-branch, I generated a new updates.img and install.img to pull in the latest storage code and related components. Below are my notes from working on everything today: 1) pyparted-2.0.4 is required for the cachedlist import problem as well as a dealloc problem on _ped.Partition. Version 2.0.4 is built and in rawhide now. 2) clumens is still working on booty, but I took what patches he had and went from there so I could get something to work with on my end. His patches are here: http://clumens.fedorapeople.org/booty/ BOOTY: I know that clumens is working on overhauling booty for the new storage code, but I did make a few patches for my own use locally so I could get past some tracebacks and concentrate on the anaconda code. I've posted my patches here: http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/storage/booty/ I took his patches, applied them to my local master branch of booty and then committed changes on top of that. The patches on my site are a combination of his and then whatever I've added. ANACONDA: 1) Syntax and import fixes are amongst my patches. 2) I ran in to one problem with udev_device_get_lv_sizes(). The info dict LVM2_LV_SIZE member contained 3 entries of which 2 were shell variable syntax. I added a local function and map() to trim the var name and equal sign. 3) Some of the patches from clumens' booty patch set were for anaconda, so I git am'ed them on my tree and included them in my patch set. 4) Using 'Create custom layout' for my system uncovered a lot of problems, mostly syntax errors and typos. Fixes are in my patch set. 5) Added minSize and maxSize properties to the StorageDevice and PartitionDevice classes. These take in to account limitations of the device as well as of the DeviceFormat. 6) Existing swap partitions show up as Unknown in the UI. If I edit it and give it a mount point, nothing changes. If I click Edit again, I get a traceback. Looks like it's a problem with swap partition labeling. 7) Existing NTFS partitions raise an exception in partition_ui_helpers_gui.py when it tries to read label code. 8) Users should not be able to select 'Format as' and 'Migrate filesystem to' at the same time. SUCCESSES: With my patches, dlehman's code from anaconda-storage-branch, and clumens' patches for booty, and the 2.0.4 pyparted, I was able to do the following: - Do Create Custom Layout and assign all of my existing partitions, except swap partitions and NTFS partitions, a mount point. I let installation continue and had no problems up until the boot loader installation. My existing partition layout had /boot, /, /home (all ext3) and a vfat misc partition. I also had swap and ntfs, but had anaconda ignore those for now. - Migration options do appear when a filesystem type can be migrated to another type. When I edit an existing partition with an ext3 filesystem, I see an option to migrate to ext4, for example. There is a list for migration types, but the files in storage/formats/ are built around one filesystem that you can migrate to. Perhaps the migration option in the UI should just be a check box and not a check box and combo box. - Resize options are appearing when doing a custom layout. Resize is selected by default and the filesystem minSize is in the entry box. The upper bound does not yet seem to be restricted to maxSize (or the code is wrong). STILL TO TEST: - Finish migration testing/debugging (working on that tomorrow) - Resize of ext? and ntfs (working on that tomorrow) - Shrink current system (working on that tomorrow) - Use entire drive install (anyone) - Wipe Linux partitions install (anyone) - Use free space install (anyone) - Kickstart (hope someone else is looking at that too) -- David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat, Inc. / Honolulu, HI _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
