announcement - forking setup-storage

[Thomas Neumann]

Update

I wrote the parser library. Testcases for physical disks and RAID devices 
are available and are passing successfully. Parser configuration for LVM, 
LUKS and tmpfs volumes is also available, but no testcases are written yet - 
it's therefore guaranteed to contain one or more bugs.

The current state is available at
 http://www.fluffbunny.de/setup-storage_v2.1.tar.gz
Unfortunately there's not much to see except if you want to dig around in 
the testcases and see how they are set up or have a look at
the actual parser code.

Perform untar, 'perl Makefile.pl'. 'make test' if you want to run the 
testcases, tests can be run outside of a fai client / configspace but you 
need at least the Test::More and Readonly modules. 'doc/dependencies' gives 
the full list, but most of these are not used right now because the 
functionality is not implemented yet. 

My next steps are to increase test coverage for the parser library and write 
a small utility which parses actual disk_config files and gives feedback / 
prints the parsed configuration state. I think the tool will be pretty useful 
later on. Regardless of whether you're using the v1.4 or my setup-storage it 
can tell where there's stuff that's not going to work as expected. Possible 
usecases could be for debugging or for new users trying to get their first 
disk configuration right. Somewhere along the way there's going to be a 
public git repository, I'm already keeping the stuff in a local git 
repository, but I haven't bothered to make it available because there wasn't 
much to see anyway.


Stuff I stumbled on: Did you know that the option value in 
  vg <vgname> <vg members> <option>
is allowed to contain mkfs- and tune-options? Until now I assumed these 
options were limited to the actual partition / RAID volume / logical volume 
configuration. I haven't looked any further into this but I wonder what 
happens if you specify different / conflicting options in both locations.

bye
thomas