[PATCH] Make preserve work for RAID in FAI 3.4.x

[Julien BLACHE]

Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

> Well, setup-storage development is really driven by use cases and feature
> requests these days, so unless someone explicitly requests that, it will not be
> supported, right. Yet it doesn't seem to hard to implement, IMHO just add a few
> commands with proper pre- and post-conditions to ensure things happen in the
> correct order. 

It should be doable, but there are probably painful corner cases to deal
with (broken arrays that can't be assembled, broken LVM VGs, ...)

>> I have an idea for a new small feature in setup-storage, I'll post an
>> RFC next week about it. Nothing earth-shattering but something that can
>> come quite handy with RAID.
>
> /me is getting curious ... In case you're expecting comments from my side: I'll
> be travelling from Tue-Fri and might be too busy to respond during that period.

I'm just looking for some feedback to gauge interest. I'll have to
implement that anyway, but I can do it in setup-storage or standalone; I
think it's a good fit for setup-storage, though.

JB.

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