Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:31:31PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:26:47AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Well, I was told differently by a Debian Developer on Linuxtag, who
> >
> > Who was it ?
>
> Martin Michlmayr.
>
> > > Well, lvm works nicly. The only "trick" is to set it up on the command
> > > line during the install (i.e., leave the gui for that). There are some
> > > minor issues in some tools (#281925 and #287670), but they can be
> > > easily worked around during operation. (I have not tried to reduce the
> > > size of a LV, though).
> >
> > Ah, didn't try any of those too, just created the LVM partitions. I don't care
> > strongly enough to pursue this though, so you are welcome to take this on you
> > shoulder and become de facto LVM-on-powerpc maintainer. I will code the parted
> > part of it once a consensus is reached about this with upstream. Please CC me
> > (or debian-powerpc) on any such discussion though
>
> This is far beyond my coding power (and my time).
This has nothing to do with coding power, it just need a decision to be taken,
and i will code it.
My proposal is to implement the lvm and raid flags as partition type strings
in mac partitions, i would call these "Linux_RAID", and "Linux_LVM". I will
fix parted so that a RAID or LVM flag will set these partition types, like it
is done on x86. Colin Watson discouraged me to do this without consensus with
lvm and mdadm upstream, which i don't have time to search, in order to not
find a situation where the scheme changes and we are forced in a compatibility
dilemna. I don't have time to follow this, but there seem to be any number of
people interested in this, who can take the time to do these discussions.
> > Indeed. Please go ahead and fill a bug report against partman, or start the
> > discussion about this with the lvm-tools maintainers.
>
> I made an installation report (which prompted above conversation). I
> can clone it to partman, if you think it is sensible.
Sure, but it depends on the above choice. I think it would be sensible to fix
the above instead. I would have done it, but i am maybe more foolhardy than
others in the debian-installer team :).
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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