Bug 19310 - Can't create raid devices/filesystems
Summary: Can't create raid devices/filesystems
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-18 09:27 UTC by Alexandre Oliva
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-11-13 20:53:30 UTC
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2000-10-18 09:27:31 UTC
After creating two 1-Gb raid partitions in disks sda and sdb (one in each),
I chose to create a Linux filesystem out of them, to be mounted in `/l',
and named the device /dev/raid/l (I've also tried /dev/raid-l, without
success).  (Actually, I have created more than one partition in one of the
disks, in one of my attempts, but I *think* I've also tried 1 parition per
disk before giving up and setting up raid by hand after a regular
installation).

All was fine until the installation got to the point of creating the actual
filesystems, just before packages start to be installed: I got an exception
from the Python interpreter, and the installation was aborted.

Please let me know if you need further information to duplicate the problem.

Comment 1 Brock Organ 2000-10-18 19:28:13 UTC
could you attach the text of the anaconda exception to this report ...? that
would be helpful ... :)



Comment 2 Alexandre Oliva 2000-10-25 02:32:13 UTC
That would be hard.  I have already managed to create some raid devices, and I'd
rather not mess up with them.  Since I don't have any free disk space, and the
problem shows up quite late in the installation process, I fear changes in the
partition table may make it to disk before the failure, destroying the data I
already have.  Sorry, I should have noted the error message when I first got it,
but I thought it would have been easy to duplicate, since I could do it so many
times :-)


Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2000-11-13 20:53:27 UTC
If you ever have a problem like this again please reopen this bug. We have not
seen this behaviour in our testing so perhaps it was something specific to your
setup.


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