[opensuse-autoinstall] Retaining software RAID devices during automated installation with autoyast
Hi Uwe, Doing automated installation of server with / on ext3 on software RAID 1 mirror of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 and /home on xfs on software RAID 10 of /dev/sda3, /dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3, /dev/sdd3. I want to preserve /home when doing an automated reinstall of the machine. I can keep the existing partitions fine and they get assigned to MD devices correctly. However whilst the partitions are being kept fine, I see the messages "deleting MD device" (or some such wording), followed by "creating MD device" (or similar wording) and indeed it then fails to mount /home as the xfs file system is not there any more. )-: If I set <create config:type="boolean">false</create> for the partitions on the /dev/md device in the autoyast file then the md devices are still destroyed but then not created again so the install fails immediately as there is nowhere to install. )-: Is this a bug or a feature? Is there any way I can get autoyast to preserve the existing md devices? If you want to see my autoyast partitioning section, this is it: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdb</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdc</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdd</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/md</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>/</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">0</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>4</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>swap</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>4</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">xfs</filesystem> <fstopt>relatime,barrier,largeio,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,swalloc</fstopt> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>/home</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>64</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> Btw. the disks are gpt as they are 3TiB disks... PS. I am installing SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 if that matters. Thanks a lot in advance! Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Jun 20, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
Doing automated installation of server with / on ext3 on software RAID 1 mirror of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 and /home on xfs on software RAID 10 of /dev/sda3, /dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3, /dev/sdd3.
I want to preserve /home when doing an automated reinstall of the machine. I can keep the existing partitions fine and they get assigned to MD devices correctly.
However whilst the partitions are being kept fine, I see the messages "deleting MD device" (or some such wording), followed by "creating MD device" (or similar wording) and indeed it then fails to mount /home as the xfs file system is not there any more. )-:
If I set <create config:type="boolean">false</create> for the partitions on the /dev/md device in the autoyast file then the md devices are still destroyed but then not created again so the install fails immediately as there is nowhere to install. )-:
Is this a bug or a feature?
Is there any way I can get autoyast to preserve the existing md devices?
From a first glance, this looks like a bug to me.
I probably can try to reproduce this here next week and will be able to tell more afterwards. If you could provide log files (complete content of /var/log/YaST2) of one or both of the failed installations this could be helpful. Bye, Thomas Fehr -- Thomas Fehr, SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-74053-482, Email: fehr@suse.de GPG public key available. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Jun 20, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
Hi Uwe,
Doing automated installation of server with / on ext3 on software RAID 1 mirror of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 and /home on xfs on software RAID 10 of /dev/sda3, /dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3, /dev/sdd3.
I want to preserve /home when doing an automated reinstall of the machine. I can keep the existing partitions fine and they get assigned to MD devices correctly.
However whilst the partitions are being kept fine, I see the messages "deleting MD device" (or some such wording), followed by "creating MD device" (or similar wording) and indeed it then fails to mount /home as the xfs file system is not there any more. )-:
If I set <create config:type="boolean">false</create> for the partitions on the /dev/md device in the autoyast file then the md devices are still destroyed but then not created again so the install fails immediately as there is nowhere to install. )-:
Is this a bug or a feature?
Is there any way I can get autoyast to preserve the existing md devices?
I now found time to fiddle around with this and has a closer look at autoyast code handling MD setup. Setup was mostly fine, except <use> in /dev/md part.
If you want to see my autoyast partitioning section, this is it:
<partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdb</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdc</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdd</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/md</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>/</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">0</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>4</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>swap</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>4</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">xfs</filesystem> <fstopt>relatime,barrier,largeio,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,swalloc</fstopt> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>/home</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>64</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use>
Here you just need to have "<use>free</use>" Otherwise the code handles existing raids like existing partitions on a disk and prefers removal of exsiting raids over reusing them. So your setup is fine (except for <use> in /dev/md): - set "initialize" to false for every disk - set "create","format" to false for every partition belonging to a raid - set "initialize" to false for /dev/md - set "create" to false for every raid device in /dev/md to reuse - set "format" for /dev/md as prefered (e.g. false for /home, true for /) - set "<use>free</use>" for /dev/md entry in disks
Btw. the disks are gpt as they are 3TiB disks...
In tried with msdos while reproducing, but that should not matter...
PS. I am installing SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 if that matters.
I tried also with SLES 11 SP2...
Thanks a lot in advance!
You are welcome... Bye, Thomas Fehr -- Thomas Fehr, SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-74053-482, Email: fehr@suse.de GPG public key available. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org
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