Bug 179760
| Summary: | multipath device support in anaconda (configuration and root volume) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jun'ichi NOMURA <junichi.nomura> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | agk, dwysocha, heinzm, kueda, mbroz, michael |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-09-22 14:35:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 150223, 179575, 184189 | ||
Here here! I'm trying to do a boot-from-SAN install proof-of-concept and the installer is cripped in this respect - even a driver disk we could use with the multipath personality on it would be a good solution for now. |
Description of problem: Anaconda to enable multipath configuration Additional info: Necessary feature would be: (assuming dm-multipath) - Discovering multipath (e.g. by using scsi_id) and present it as a dm-multipath device (Underlying devices may be hidden or shaddowed to disallow operation.) - UI to manually configure/deconfigure a multipath device (Manual configuration may be needed in case there is only a single path at installation time and extended after installation. Deconfiguration may be necessary to undo it.) - Present partitions on the multipath device (e.g. by using kpartx) - UI to edit partitions on the multipath device (transparent to normal device) - mkinitrd support for multipath root volume - Properly handling combination with other dm devices (LVM2, dmraid) (IMO, they are stacked as LVM2, md, dmraid, multipath from top to bottom. I'm not sure there is a device which has both multipath capability and dmraid support) There was a request for RHEL4 which was not accepted as of U3. I'm opening this for FC5/FC6, hoping the support in RHEL5.