Bug 725136

Summary:	Add --layout arg to raid kickstart command
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gunter Woytowitz <gunter.woytowitz>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, nick.soracco, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Gunter Woytowitz 2011-07-23 03:39:13 UTC

Description of problem:
I would like to be able to specify the mdadm layout for a raid volume from within a kickstart file. I suggest adding --layout argument to the raid command. Here is an example 

raid / --level=10 --layout=f2 --device=md0 --fstype=ext4 raid.01 raid.02 raid.03 raid.04

This would create a raid 10 volume with an f2 layout using four partitions.

Currently only the default mdadm layout of "n2" can be created from kickstart.  

Alternatively a generic raid argument could be added like --mdadm-args="--layout f2" which would allow any mdadm arg/option to be specified. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
15.31

How reproducible:
New Feature request

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Comment 1 Nick Soracco 2011-10-07 15:50:04 UTC

I frequently need to reprovision 1U servers with 4 disks.  Having the ability to automatically kickstart these nodes instead of leaving out the partitioning information would be a great time saver.

Comment 2 Nick Soracco 2011-10-07 15:50:49 UTC

I should add that I left it out specifically so I can manually create --layout f2 style RAID10 groups across those 4 disks.

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