Bug 1015657 - RFE: how to show multiple instances of other (or prior Fedora) installs, instead of snapshots
Summary: RFE: how to show multiple instances of other (or prior Fedora) installs, inst...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-04 18:19 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2021-09-20 12:36 UTC (History)
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screenshot Manual Partitioning (41.87 KB, image/jpeg)
2013-10-04 18:22 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
storage.state (24.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2013-10-04 18:23 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
storage.log (228.55 KB, text/plain)
2013-10-04 18:23 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details

Description Chris Murphy 2013-10-04 18:19:50 UTC
Description of problem: Manual Partitioning shows two instances of Fedora 20, probably because btrfs root has been snapshotted, and hence there are in a sense two Fedora 20 installs. But this is going to cause problems if root is snapshot 50x as is semi-planned with the rollback project.

This may also be occur with thinp snapshots.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda 20.21-1

How reproducible:
Always if there are snapshots of root.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 20 once.
2. Sometime later, make a snapshot of its root subvolume.
3. Rerun the installer.

Actual results:
Two Fedora 20 installations (or as many as there are snapshots it seems).

Also, no differentiation between what are separate/unique Fedora installations vs snapshots.

Expected results:
We either need fs metadata to help distinguish between separate installations and snapshots, with a user interface that indicates such. Or maybe some kind of installation specific UUID, then if anaconda sees multiple subvolumes with the same UUID it knows they're not unique.


Additional info:
Cosmetic issue, but will result in user confusion if there are automatic snapshots per: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rollback

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2013-10-04 18:22:49 UTC
Created attachment 807895 [details]
screenshot Manual Partitioning

There is one "in use" root subvolume and a snapshot of it (hence there are in effect two root subvolumes).

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2013-10-04 18:23:17 UTC
Created attachment 807896 [details]
storage.state

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2013-10-04 18:23:35 UTC
Created attachment 807897 [details]
storage.log

Comment 4 Chris Murphy 2013-10-04 18:31:33 UTC
Oops. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rollback is rollback via thinp snapshots. Untested to see if the problem reproduces there.

The current one for btrfs seems to be: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates


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