> I know we can already hardcode which disk to use (--ondisk=sda) When building a kickstart configuration for two or more types of machines sometimes that *doesn't* work. Last time I went through that I had Dell R620XDs (IIRC) and these awful SuperMicro boxes that had a windows only raid controller and I had to scriptomagically bang sdb and sdc together to get a predictable MD0. The sda device was present, but didn't work. What would be *really* cool is a couple of built in tags (@local, @remote, etc.) but also a way to define NEW tags on the fly--for example having a PRE script that creates an MD device then tags that as @fred or one that goes looking for a drive with particular characteristics (say for example I have a HP DL380G8 with 3 onboard RAID controllers and want to strip my data RAID across them, I can look for the first drive on each controller and make them a RAID 1, then the next X drives as a PV, and the last Y drives as a second PV etc.. > but I'd like to be able to tell kickstart to use only the 1st disk found, or at least confine the kickstart to 1 drive. On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Steve Rikli <sr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 03:44:09PM -0400, David Lehman wrote: >> >> I work on blivet, which is the storage management backend for >> anaconda/kickstart. I'm working on a feature that was inspired by >> discussion on this list: specification of disks by class/tag. >> Eventually, I imagine this capability will be plumbed through kickstart >> and anaconda. >> >> In the interest of determining how much machinery I should build into >> this, I'm soliciting use-cases for this type of filtering. Here's what >> I have so far: >> >> # do autopart, but only use local drives >> ignoredisk --onlyuse=@local >> autopart >> >> # make sure /boot goes on a local drive >> part /boot??--ondisk=@local >> >> # make sure a pv that backs an lvm cache lv goes on the ssd >> part pv.cache.0 --fstype=lvmpv --size=4096 --grow --ondisk=@ssd >> >> # put a data volume on a shared SAN volume >> part /shared --size=100000 --grow --ondisk=@remote >> >> >> What kinds of restrictions do you wish you could easily place on disk >> sets in your kickstart configurations? > > I know we can already hardcode which disk to use (--ondisk=sda) but I'd > like to be able to tell kickstart to use only the 1st disk found, or at > least confine the kickstart to 1 drive. > > You're in the same ballpark with @local (+ @<disktype> maybe?) but e.g. > if I have a pair of SSD and I want the 2nd one to be used for non-sysdisk > duties, today I think I have to use disk names. > > Thanks for looking into this sort of enhancement. Even just the above > ideas are potentially helpful. > > sr. > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
