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Bug 515293

Summary:	RFE: Support formatting of new (ext3/4) filesystems for fs storage pool type
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Osier Yang <jyang>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	cpelland, dallan, dyuan, gren, hbrock, jdenemar, llim, mzhan, rjones, rwu, veillard, whuang, xen-maint, yoyzhang
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	libvirt-0.9.9-1.el6	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	No ducumentation needed.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2012-06-20 06:20:18 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Daniel Berrangé 2009-08-03 15:57:08 UTC

Description of problem:
The 'fs' storage pool type can only mount block devices which have already been formatted with a filesystem. 

The 'build' operation needs to be implemented for this pool type to allowing formatting of new filesystems on a block device.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.7.0

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2009-08-03 16:19:09 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 4 Dave Allan 2010-05-17 19:22:10 UTC

Moving to 6.1

Comment 7 Osier Yang 2011-01-29 07:08:17 UTC

The patch was pushed into upstream early in Feb, 2010.

commit b738016b78f157be16ed3200fb0e0023e81e2adb
Author: Dave Allan <dallan>
Date:   Wed Feb 24 09:51:34 2010 +0100

    Format FS pools on creation
    
    Create the filesystem on the partition used by the pool
    * configure.ac: check for mkfs availability
    * libvirt.spec.in: add extra require on util-linux for mkfs
    * src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c: run mkfs with the expected
      fs type when creating a filesystem pool

Also checked libvirt RHEL6.1 source code. the patch is there. so move it to POST.

Comment 12 Osier Yang 2011-04-15 02:08:40 UTC

v4 patch sent to upstream.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-April/msg00465.html

Comment 15 Osier Yang 2011-09-02 13:31:42 UTC

Patches committed into upstream:

ddcd5674aa59ab1f818f333090c0e695ffe93b67
27758859c7192603d803fe0733ac9c141304c762
660cb2530f5bf15183475da54980eb260454000a

Comment 17 Huang Wenlong 2012-01-10 06:50:09 UTC

Verify this bug with: 
libvirt-0.9.9-1.el6.x86_64


#virsh pool-dumpxml sda1

<pool type='fs'>
  <name>sda1</name>
  <uuid>335d8d99-e88e-4d28-ec7d-5c6025d16fc2</uuid>
  <capacity>507744256</capacity>
  <allocation>10762240</allocation>
  <available>496982016</available>
  <source>
    <device path='/dev/sda1'/>
    <format type='ext4'/>
  </source>
  <target>
    <path>/var/lib/libvirt/images/sda1</path>
    <permissions>
      <mode>0700</mode>
      <owner>-1</owner>
      <group>-1</group>
    </permissions>
  </target>
</pool>

# virsh pool-build sda1 --overwrite 
Pool sda1 built

# virsh pool-start sda1  
Pool sda1 started

# mount
...
/dev/sda1 on /var/lib/libvirt/images/sda1 type ext4 (rw)
...

Comment 18 Osier Yang 2012-05-04 10:46:13 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
No ducumentation needed.

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 06:20:18 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0748.html