setup_harddisks

[Andrew Pollock]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:19:58PM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:09, Andrew Pollock wrote;
> 
>   > I think a lot of the limitations of the current method revolve
>   > around the fact that there's a single config file that is trying
>   > to describe the partitioning layout, as well as the filesystem
>   > types. When you want to incorporate a new layer (like with LVM and
>   > RAID), it just doesn't fit into this model.
> 
> I beg to differ.  Refer attached :)

Good grief, so it does do LVM now. But you can see how convoluted that file
is getting. I can see it mentions LVM everywhere, but I couldn't immediately
parse what was going on...
 
>   > A friend of mine is looking at rewriting it in C (for some insane
>   > reason), and I'm asking on his behalf if there would be any
>   > likelyhood of getting it including in FAI, replacing the existing
>   > system.
> 
> Unlikely.  Too difficult for your average admin to debug.

Yeah fair enough.

Andrew