setup_harddisks

Rudy Gevaert Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be
Fri Mar 28 15:40:02 CET 2008


Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> [...]
>>> I have not looked into the setup_harddisks code as detailed as this, I'd rather
>>> ask you to give setup-storage a try :-) It shouldn't be too much hassle to
>>> enforce this in the new code, at least I know it quite well :-)
>> In the mean time I have found the two places in the code to fix it :). I 
>> haven't tried setup-storage yet.  Unfortunate I haven't followed the FAI 
>> list lately so I don't know how 'stable' it is.  Can you tell me?
>>
> 
> Well, it seems to work well in most cases, that is: So far it didn't do any
> harm, but failed in some situations, which then result in reasonably quick
> fixes.
> 
> I've used it to set up a completely new environment (incl. all the LVM and
> Xen stuff) and I'm thus using it in a production environment.
> 
> But the usual disclaimers still apply. Most importantly, I haven't played around
> with the resize/preserve options yet.

Ah good to know.  When we make the upgrade of our FAI set up I'll give 
it al look.

Rudy


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