Bug 57550

Summary:	--bytes-per-inode kickstart option problem
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Jarek Polok <jaroslaw.polok>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version:	3.0	CC:	bfox, jan.iven, katzj, laroche, tao
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Description Jarek Polok 2001-12-15 14:13:56 UTC

Description of Problem:

--bytes-per-inode option in kickstart install mode does not work on 
per partition basis, but globally.
In addition the last value used in per partition option is set for all
partitions having the option. 
Note that it happens ONLY in kickstart mode 


How Reproducible:

Use kickstart install file with options alike:

part /part1 [other opts] --on-disk=sda 
part /part2 [other opts] --on-disk=sdb --bytes-per-inode=266144

[I'm not sure if the same will happen if you have partitions on same disk]

Then install the system using it, check number of bytes per inode 
with dumpe2fs.

Actual Results:

/part1 and /part2 will have 266144 bytes per inode ...


Expected Results:

/part1 - default bytes-per-inode
/part2 266144 bytes-per-inode

Additional Information:

It seems that some values are not cleared in a for loop in
anaconda's sources: kickstart.py file.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-01-16 20:40:55 UTC

Will be fixed in the next release.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-26 17:30:11 UTC

Deferring to future release.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2004-12-10 17:56:35 UTC

I'm reopening this bug because it was never fixed and I now have a
customer that is hitting this issue.

Comment 4 test 2004-12-14 20:38:10 UTC