Re: bug 906417

[Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 8, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Charles Amey <kc8hfi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My comment explained the situation as to why a person would want to create multiple raid partitions on a single, physical drive. 

And it's a totally uncompelling use case for an installer to support.

It doesn't justify the dozens of people being involved in making it work and then testing it. This is not just one switch. What if during beta this "feature" breaks in some way. Presumably you'd expect a fix? But under what sort of priority? And if it doesn't get fixed, it's another release that doesn't merely lack the functionality you want. It's a land mine that suggests the function is there, people trip on it, and have a bad experience. For the entire product's life. So then the work load becomes removing the broken feature right before release. It's such a ridiculous use case this paragraph isn't worth it, let alone the code it would take to implement it.

Look at the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=129306 comment 2 from Paul.  He explained what he was trying to do and it makes perfect sense.

To me, it makes perfectly zero sense.

If you examine the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815985, its not a duplicate of #129306 either.  In Greg's description, he explains that anaconda can't find existing root partitions in a degraded raid1 array.

They're all the same in that they expect a degraded array to be a viable install target. It's not.

With f18 anaconda,  one does not have the ability to create a raid partition if there's only one hard drive.  

Works as designed.

Try a VM as a work around, you can create two disks on one physical drive and you will be able to do your tests.

Chris Murphy

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