Bug 680377

Summary:	anaconda removes every single partition when specifying 'clearpart --all...'
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Raul Mahiques <rmahique>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	5.3
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	5.7
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Description Raul Mahiques 2011-02-25 10:49:30 UTC

Description of problem:
Anaconda remove partitons and LVs one by one when you specify the option:
clearpart --all ...
this is inieficient and sometimes slows the kickstart process


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Noticed in RHEL5.3, probably others.

How reproducible:
Create some LVs in a disk.
kickstart the machine including 'clearpart --all ...'
Observe tty3 output

Actual results:
Anaconda deletes partitons and LVs one by one

Expected results:
Anaconda cleans the disk quickly (ie. using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskdevice bs=1M count=1 )

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2011-02-25 15:01:44 UTC

While it'd be nice to make this faster, RHEL5 is at a point where we're really only making changes that fix bugs affecting installability and hardware support.