reassign 499285 partman-md
retitle 499285 partman-md: should use partman locking mechanism
thanks
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 06:36:30AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Saturday 20 September 2008 09:35, Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> wrote:
> > > But having LVM enabled it was unable to cease all kernel access to the
> > > partitions for the purpose of getting the kernel to recognise the new
> > > partitions I created (I decided I wanted a slightly different RAID
> > > installation for the rebuild).
> >
> > Did you remove all Logical Volumes, Volume Groups and Physical Volumes
> > before changing the RAID 1 partitions?
>
> No. There were many LVs and it seemed a lot easier to just remove the RAID
> devices.
>
> > partman have a locking mechanism that is already used for crypto that
> > prevent such problems by not allowing partitions in use to be changed.
> > Unfortunately, the changes required to use this mechanism for RAID are
> > too invasive for Lenny (two d-i components needs to be merged before
> > adding the feature).
>
> OK.
>
> I'm happy for this one to be fixed in Lenny+1.
Indeed. Reassigning this bug to partman-md to be sure to remember this
issue.
In the meantime, this issue should be documented in the installer errata.
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism
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