On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:00 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, David Lehman <dlehman@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > You found a bug. We don't honor fsprofile when --useexisting is passed > > to the logvol command. If you file a bug it can be fixed pretty easily. > > Or, if you just let anaconda create your logical volumes for you you > > won't hit the bug. > > I wondered if that was the problem. However, I also don't see my test > settings applied to /boot. Ah, yes. Same bug for partitions. Presumably also for raid. > > > Out of curiosity, why are you doing the partitioning and lvm stuff in % > > pre? > > Anaconda doesn't give any controls of ordering or layout of LVs. For > example, I use LVM snapshots for backups. I create the LVs with a > little empty space at the end to use for the snapshot (so it stays close > to the original data). I also then need to leave a certain amount (that > I figure in percent) of the VG free for snapshot space. anaconda-16.18-1 added support for specifying reserved space in a _new_ vg for snapshots or whatever. I'm adding it to the wiki options page now. The new options are both to the volgroup command: --reserved-space=<mb> (reserved space in mb) --reserved-percent=<percent> (reserved percentage of vg space) > > I've also used mirrored LVs for some setups in the past. I actually did > that with a crazy hack that involved bind mounting a wrapper script over > lvcreate (so I didn't do partitioning/LV setup in %pre). :-) > > The ordering wouldn't be hard to handle in anaconda, but the other > things would be tricky. I guess if anaconda had ordering controls, I > could use a bunch of scratch LVs in between each "real" LV (and then > delete the scratch LVs in %post). That might also work to reserve space > for snapshots. Why do you care about the ordering of the LVs? > > Anaconda also doesn't allow custom RAID configuration options, such as > metadata versions, chunk size, bitmaps, creation of RAID with missing > devices (or IIRC RAID1 with 1 drive) for later expansion. We do create bitmaps where they make sense when creating md arrays since around F13. Dave > > -- > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
