sles 8 RAID in autoyast

30 May 2003

      Hi,

I am having a lot of trouble getting autoyast to install a raid
configuration.  I have tried several methods from the "documentation"
and mailing-lists but I still get errors regarding the size of '/' and
'/var' (basically, the raid arrays are not being set up properly).

This is SLES 8 on an Opteron system.  I have even tried installing
manually then using yast2 to create a clone.xml.  Using the clone.xml
untouched on the same system results in a "Preparting the RAID system
failed" error.

Here is the partitioning and raid portion of my control file:

    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/hda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/boot</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
            <size>80mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <mount />
            <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
            <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name>
            <size>2040mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <mount />
            <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
            <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name>
            <size>6000mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <mount />
            <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr>
            <raid_name>/dev/md3</raid_name>
            <size>1020mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <mount />
            <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">6</partition_nr>
            <raid_name>/dev/md4</raid_name>
            <size>10gb</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/hdb</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/bootmirror</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
            <size>80mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <mount />
            <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
            <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name>
            <size>2040mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <mount />
            <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
            <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name>
            <size>6000mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <mount />
            <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr>
            <raid_name>/dev/md3</raid_name>
            <size>1020mb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <mount />
            <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">6</partition_nr>
            <raid_name>/dev/md4</raid_name>
            <size>10gb</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>
    <raid config:type="list">
      <raid_device>
        <device_name>/dev/md1</device_name>
        <parity_algorithm>left-asymmetric</parity_algorithm>
        <persistent_superblock
config:type="boolean">true</persistent_superblock>
        <raid_level>1</raid_level>
        <chunk_size>64</chunk_size>
        <mount>swap</mount>
        <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
        <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
      </raid_device>
      <raid_device>
        <device_name>/dev/md2</device_name>
        <parity_algorithm>left-asymmetric</parity_algorithm>
        <persistent_superblock
config:type="boolean">true</persistent_superblock>
        <raid_level>1</raid_level>
        <chunk_size>64</chunk_size>
        <mount>/</mount>
        <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
        <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
      </raid_device>
      <raid_device>
        <device_name>/dev/md3</device_name>
        <parity_algorithm>left-asymmetric</parity_algorithm>
        <persistent_superblock
config:type="boolean">true</persistent_superblock>
        <raid_level>1</raid_level>
        <chunk_size>64</chunk_size>
        <mount>/var</mount>
        <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
        <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
      </raid_device>
      <raid_device>
        <device_name>/dev/md4</device_name>
        <parity_algorithm>left-asymmetric</parity_algorithm>
        <persistent_superblock
config:type="boolean">true</persistent_superblock>
        <raid_level>1</raid_level>
        <chunk_size>64</chunk_size>
        <mount>/home</mount>
        <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
        <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
      </raid_device>
    </raid>

thanks
-nate

sles 8 RAID in autoyast

Nate Faerber