Re: Etch Software RAID Upgrade Trouble & Suggested Installer Improvements
On Saturday 06 January 2007 18:35, Claus Fischer
<claus.fischer@clausfischer.com> wrote:
> 1. Rescue mode needs MD devices
>
> The rescue mode of the installer needs a step
> to activate MD devices. Currently, only the plain
> disk partitions are visible; that's no help.
Sounds like a reasonable request. Filed a bug report?
Note that it has to be an optional measure.
> 2. Netinstall image needs a ping
Makes sense too, busybox has a ping command.
> 3. Netinstall's ifconfig needs to set MAC address
>
> The ifconfig on the netinstall image (from busybox)
> does not allow to set the hardware ethernet address.
> In some scenarios this is important and necessary.
A bug report against busybox would be good for this.
On Sunday 07 January 2007 01:00, Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>
wrote:
> > 7. There needs to be a command to copy all data
>
> I've wished for full acl support in tar for a long time... At least rsync
> is now getting it. (OT for this thread. Still: anybody knows an archiver
> that properly handles POSIX acls?)
star -xattr -H=exustar
The above should work if you install star. Note that I have only tested it
for SE Linux security contexts, but the same interface is used.
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