On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 19:51 +0200, Jos Vos wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 09:48:19AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > A wild shot in the dark, but not > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs#ksdevice-case-sensitive ? > > I wrote that because we had one person who was using > > 'ksdevice=BOOTIF'... > > Too easy... no, the boot cmdline is correct "... ksdevice=link ks=nfs:...". > > > Perhaps prior to that, the parameter was simply ignored, so in your > > CentOS install those partitions aren't actually growable? I'm not sure, > > though. dlehman can likely explain better. > > Yes, it works fine in RHEL6, it grows as expected (partitions 3 and 4 > take all remaining disk space, each half of it). And I think it makes > sense to be able to do this, why should that be limited to RAID0... There's some details in the bug report referenced in the commit message - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659700 - and an earlier bug - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577432 . The reason it's disallowed appears to be that, at some RAID metadata versions, things will break if you try to use growable partitions when the disks in the array are not identically sized, for anything other than RAID-0 (where it obviously doesn't matter). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659700#c1 has a couple of methods for deriving the exact size of the drives, if that helps you. There's some bellyaching in the bug and then https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659700#c13 from dlehman: "Implementing growing of raid partitions such that an arbitrary number of partitions always grow at the same rate and end up the same size is quite difficult. There are just more important things that we need to work on. If you are not satisfied with the fedora installer you have three options: 1) contribute by adding the functionality you want added 2) find a way to endure by using %pre or other methods 3) switch distros There's not much else to say." Which I presume is still where things stand, for David. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
