setup-storage: preserve_lazy for LVM fails on empty disk

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Wed Apr 28 23:57:39 CEST 2010


> 
> >>
> >>Context: FAI 3.4~beta1+experimental11, disk is empty, and the
> >>preserve_lazy option is set for two LVM volumes.
> >>The volume group is not created by setup-storage, pvcreate is
> >>followed by vgextend instead of vgcreate.
> >>
> >>I'm pretty sure this has been working before, I think I have
> >>successfully used it with experimental9.
> >>Of course, I just need to remove the preserve_lazy option to make it
> >>work again.
> >>
> >>The format.log file is on http://paste.debian.net/71013/
> >>
> >
> >It is claimed that vg0 exists (lines 68-72), but that seems pretty odd. Could I
> >ask you to redo the experiments, maybe even just do a setup-storage run without
> >-X, but rename vg0 to vg1 in the config? It seems likely that this entry in the
> >hash is unintentionally created. Could you try to confirm that?
> Same result, vg1 is in the hash although it has never existed on this disk.
> 

I believe this should be fixed in 3.4~beta1+experimental14. Could you please
verify that?

Thanks a lot for the quick test, it helped a lot!

Best,
Michael

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