Bug#539521: marked as done (mke2fs hangs formatting RAID6)
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and subject line Re: Bug#539521: mke2fs hangs formatting RAID6
has caused the Debian Bug report #539521,
regarding mke2fs hangs formatting RAID6
to be marked as done.
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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst ISO image
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: Aug. 1, 2009
Machine: Core i7 920, ASUS WS P6T7 Supercomputer
Processor: Core i7 920
Memory: 6 GB
Partitions: N/A
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): N/A
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
I created a RAID1 to hold the /boot partition and formatted as ext3 just
fine. When trying to format a RAID6 LVM group for /, mke2fs (creating
an ext3 fs) sits there and does nothing. This has been happening for
a week at least.
RAID1: 5 partitions, 0 spares
RAID6: 5 partitions, 0 spares, one LVM logical group for the root fs
Booted with "nopat" to get around a console hang problem but the issue
also happens in the graphical install ("nopat" not needed).
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On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:22:22PM -0500, David Greene wrote:
> Oh, it finally did kick off and apparently formatted the partition. The
> progress meter went to 33% immediately and then just sat there. I saw
> this behavior last week and then it really did sit there for hours. So
> it appears whatever problem existed a week ago is gone
Thank you for following up. I'm closing the bug.
> but that the UI could use some work.
Indeed. As I understand, it is not possible to get more fine-
grained progress output from mkfs.ext3, so we are currently stuck
with the very coarse two(?)-step progress bar.
Max
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