> >Would this kill all potential partitions on DASDs that were already both > >low-level formatted as well as already having partitions? > >That would mean whenever the user had one or more DASDs yet to be > >low-level formatted, he would have to recreate all existing partitioning > >on other DASDs which had been in use and thus prepared before. > >How was this handled with RHEL5 in order not to introduce regressions? > > Hmm, yeah that could be a problem. I'm going to save the kickstart handling > for another patch. I want to talk to clumens and see what, if anything, > exists in kickstart that we could define/use for unformatted DASDs. Actually, what I meant to suggest was the zerombr command, which reinitializes any invalid partition tables it finds. We overload this to do the same with LVM metadata. I suggest we further overload it to do the same for unformatted DASDs. I can't overstate my opposition to adding any new options or commands to the clearpart/zerombr disaster, as that can only make things even more complicated and introduce even more corner cases we don't test for. - Chris _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
