Bug 703161

Summary:	RFE: Ability to use an entire disk as a PV during kickstart.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Andy Speagle <andy.speagle>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Version:	5.5
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Description Andy Speagle 2011-05-09 14:07:21 UTC

Description of problem:
In order to use LVM with a kickstart installation, one must use a PV that has been created on a partition.  The functionality should exist that one can specify an entire disk (ala /dev/sdb) as a PV for use with LVM.

I'm not certain to which product this be assigned.  It seems that all versions of anaconda lack this functionality with kickstart installations.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All

How reproducible:
Request for enhancement.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2011-05-09 15:57:14 UTC

RHEL5 anaconda does not support whole disk formatting of any type, and it won't be getting added due to where we are in the RHEL5 cycle and the relative cruftiness of the storage code there.

For post-RHEL5, we recognize and will use whole disk formats if they exist, but do not yet provide a way to create them.  The reason for this is it's simply not a high priority to provide a UI for it, and there's some concern that you could still end up in the UI through various error paths in kickstart.  So, we don't want to do it in kickstart yet if you can end up in a situation where there's nothing you can do.