"virtual" option in setup-storage's documentation is ambiguous
Alfie John
alfie at h4c.kr
Tue Aug 28 15:14:07 CEST 2012
Hi guys,
I've been trying to find a bug in one of my setups. It ended up being a
bogus "virtual" option in disk_config line.
The documentation says:
| virtual
/* do not assume the disk to be a physical device, use with xen *
Since it said "do not assume", I just thought it would be safe to leave
this in here. However, using this left me with a broken install stopping
after the mkswap().
Looking at the logs (format.log), it looked like the mkfs died too.
After more poking I found that the partitions weren't even being setup.
I removed the "virtual" option, and everything seemed happy again.
As for the bug, can the documentation be changed to:
| virtual
/* the device is not a physical disk, use with virtual machine hosts */
Alfie
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