http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585684 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585684#c0 Summary: YaST is by installation not capable of creating partitioned MD devices Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: DOlsson@WEB.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2009122200 SUSE/3.0.17-0.1.1 Firefox/3.0.17 When trying to install openSUSE 11.2 on two new SATA disks (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb), I want to configure a partitioned MD RAID1 device using /dev/sd[ab], but YaST2 refuses to allow me to do this. When trying to using the Create Customer Partition, it is not possible to create an MD disk with /dev/sd[ab] as members of the MD device. After having created a partition on both disks of type 0xFD, it is possible to create a RAID1 MD device, but it is not possible to partition this MD device. Trying a work around, where I create the partitioned MD device by hand with mdadm --create /dev/md/raid1 --name="raid1" --homehost="Loke" --level="raid1" --auto="part3" --metadata="1.0" -v -n 2 /dev/sda /dev/sdb followed by the creation of 3 partitions on "/dev/md/raid1" (/dev/md/raid1p[123]), the MD device is created as I want it. After having booted the installation kernel, I verified that the new MD device is being correctly detected incl. the partitions (which it is), but YaST still refuses to accept that an MD device can be partitioned, thus making it impossible to access the three partitions that I have just created. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the openSUSE 11.2 installation DVD 2. Select the Customer Partition Creation menu 3. Under the RAID menu it is not possible to make use of full disks (/dev/sdx) to create an RAID MD device, let alone a partitionable MD device. 3a. Creating a 0xFD partition of both disks, allows for the creation of an MD RAID device, but this device cannot be partitioned either. Actual Results: When trying to create a RAID MD device using full disks (/dev/sdx), the menu refuses with an error messages claiming that there is not any free devices able for the creation of the RAID MD device. Expected Results: When trying to create a RAID MD device using full disks (/dev/sdx), YaST to allow for the selection of disks that does have any partitions created on them to be part of an MD RAID device, just as it should be possible to create partitions on the resulting MD device. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.