FAI Stable release 3.4.0

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >> 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.
> >
> > Would it be possible to verify that the very same problem appears if you use the
> > experimental FAI packages? I think there shouldn't be any difference, but just
> > wanted to make sure that a future patch really fixes this issue.
> 
> Looking at the patches in experimental right now, I don't see how any of
> them would change any of that :)
> 
> >> 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...
> >
> > I'd like to fix this by enforcing an order of commands where all partition-table
> > related commands appear before any array on that disk is started. The patch that
> > is supposed to achieve this is ready, just waiting for the above
> > cross-validation before committing it to experimental.
> 
> That would be nice, but it might be too invasive for FAI 3.4.x and
> Squeeze, and that's where an urgent fix is needed right now...
> 

Well, the diff is pretty small, so it should be ok I guess. Could you give it a
try? It's in 4.0~beta0+experimental2.

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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