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Created attachment 926082 [details]
screenshot of anaconda GUI installer showing no RAID options

Description of problem:

The GUI installer doesn't seem to support non-btrfs software raid, the initial "partitioning scheme" selection doesn't include it and it's not available in any mountpoint options after mountpoint creation, see the attached image.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
(the version used for the official RHEL-7.0 DVD)

Actual results:
no softward raid configuration possible using the GUI installer

Expected results:
being able to configure software raid (mdadm) over any block devices (entire disks, standard partitions, LVM LVs, existing software raids)

Additional info:
Software raid works just fine using a custom kickstart, it's just the GUI installer, which lacks the capability. My use case was to create two degraded raids (v0.90 metadata for /boot, v1.2 metadata for /) on a single drive, adding a second drive later.

Created attachment 926084 [details]
screenshot of anaconda GUI installer showing RAID options

We already do? Did you choose more than one disk to install to?

(In reply to David Shea from comment #2)
> Created attachment 926084 [details]
> screenshot of anaconda GUI installer showing RAID options
> 
> We already do? Did you choose more than one disk to install to?

No, as I said:

(In reply to Jiri Jaburek from comment #0)
> My use case was to create two
> degraded raids (v0.90 metadata for /boot, v1.2 metadata for /) on a single
> drive, adding a second drive later.

If the installer doesn't support this, please append "for degraded RAIDs" to the bug summary.

Thanks,
Jiri

Anaconda does not support degraded RAID.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 61844 ***