FAI Stable release 3.4.0

[Michael Prokop]

* Julien BLACHE <jblache at debian.org> [Mon Aug 09, 2010 at 12:15:56PM +0200]:
> Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> wrote:

> > Upgrading from previous versions of FAI to the 3.4.0 release is
> > supposed to be easy and should not break anything (we tried to take
> > special care and be as backwards compatible as possible). If you

> The change to Exec.pm in setup-storage to add a catch-all on command
> errors breaks RAID setups, see the attached format.log (I can send the
> config file if needed).

> Parted exits with this error:

>   Warning: WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on
>   /dev/sdb (Device or resource busy).  As a result, it may not reflect all
>   of your changes until after reboot.

> As /dev/md0 is started before this parted command is executed, both
> disks are now busy and the kernel can't re-read the partition table.

> It is probably not possible to let this particular error through as it's
> too generic and could be the result of other more critical commands
> earlier on.

> Unfortunately, parted doesn't seem to have an option to NOT re-read the
> partition table after making changes :/

> I think the best we can do is to add || true to this particular command
> in set_partition_type_phys_dev(), at least for now. Anything else will
> probably be too invasive for 3.4 at this stage...

Michael Tautschnig, is this fine for you? If so, would it be
possible that you'd address this in your people/experimental branch
so I can merge it into the stable branch and forward it to Thomas?

> Looks like this will need a 3.4.1 release :|

Shouldn't be a problem at all, currently I'm waiting for ftp-masters
to accept the 3.4.0 release through NEW (as we've a new binary
package).

Thanks, Julien!

regards,
-mika-
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