These patches are intended for rhel6-branch and master.
Bug #528386 is meant to improve the dasdfmt support we had from RHEL-5. I
have divided the work in to two parts:
1) Functional. Detect unformatted DASDs, offer the user to option
to format them or bail, perform the format and display progress.
2) Parallel formatting. IBM wants parallel formatting support for
sites that have thousands of DASDs. I wanted to separate that
work from these patches.
I changed execWithPulseProgress() in iutil.py to execWithCallback(). The
execWithPulseProgress() function is now implemented using execWithCallback.
You can see how I use execWithCallback in the new dasd.py for displaying
progress as captured from the dasdfmt command.
I did introduce storage/dasd.py, which brings in a DASD class. The whole
dasdfmt operation needs to occur before we initialize the storage code in
anaconda. So like we have the iscsi and ZFCP classes and call startup()
on those before initializing the storage code, that's what the DASD class
is meant to do. It also leaves a convenient place for future DASD patches
that need to deal with system-wide configuration files such as a possible
/etc/dasd.conf or something like that.
Lastly, compared to RHEL-5, the dasdfmt question is asked once. We used
to present a Yes/Skip dialog for each unformatted DASD, which is simply
unusable. I now build a list of all unformatted DASDs and tell the user
how many were found and ask if you want them formatted. I did kick around
the idea of presenting a checklist where users could uncheck DASDs they
did not want anaconda to format and use, but really, we give users plenty
of ways to skip or mask out devices with all of the linuxrc.s390 stuff, I
felt doing it here was pointless. By the time anaconda runs, we should
be able to use all of the DASDs we see.
The next patch set will be for the parallel formatting with dasdfmt.
Progress bar code in this set has been tested on both the iw and textw
code. Works fine on both.
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David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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