Bug#868859: iso-scan: should also scan LVM logical volumes
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:48:48AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> With this patch, I ensure that we activate LVM logical volumes so that
> they are visible by "list-devices" and so that they can be scanned too.
>
> That way we are also able to identify ISO images stored within LVM
> logical volumes.
Seems basically OK.
> Obviously this has implications on the rest of the installation process.
> The logical volume will be in use and the partitioning step will have
> to preserve the logical volume and its parent volume group.
>
> But partman is perfectly able to cope with the logical volumes being
> already activated so it should be fine to do this here.
I agree that it ought to work, but what testing have you done of this?
Have you confirmed that the LV is marked as locked in partman and can't
be changed using manual partitioning operations? What happens with
automatic partitioning?
(iso-scan will already provoke this kind of situation for ordinary
partitions, of course, but LVM partitioning is different enough that I'd
like to know that it's been explicitly checked.)
> + if type vgchange >/dev/null; then
Nit: it's worth ">/dev/null 2>&1" here, as "type" writes to stderr if
the command isn't available, and that's probably just noise in the logs.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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