Bug 83816 - Installer mishandles LVM /usr
Summary: Installer mishandles LVM /usr
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: phoebe
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 79578
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-02-09 10:53 UTC by Harris Landgarten
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-13 21:57:42 UTC
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fstab as requested (1.05 KB, text/plain)
2003-02-10 22:29 UTC, Harris Landgarten
no flags Details

Description Harris Landgarten 2003-02-09 10:53:14 UTC
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Description of problem:
I ran a phoebe upgrade install on Redhat 8 with /usr mounted on an LVM  volume.
Anaconda installed a new /usr on / partition and copied all /usr files there. It
then mounted the /usr in fstab (the LVM one) properly leaving all of the files
copied to /usr invisable and an unstable system  

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


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create LVM VG and mount /usr one it in RH 8
2.Upgrade to phoebe
3.
    

Actual Results:  none of the files in /usr were upgraded and alot of disk space
disappeared for the root volume

Expected Results:  the /usr in fstab should have been used in the upgrade

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-02-10 19:56:43 UTC
This works for me here...  could you attach your /etc/fstab?

Comment 2 Harris Landgarten 2003-02-10 22:29:18 UTC
Created attachment 89980 [details]
fstab as requested

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2003-02-13 19:14:06 UTC
This is because your /usr is a jfs filesystem.  We don't support jfs filesystems.

Comment 4 Harris Landgarten 2003-02-13 21:27:57 UTC
You do obviously support JFS in the kernel so in what way don't you support JFS?

Comment 5 Harris Landgarten 2003-02-13 21:32:35 UTC
In addition, even if you don't support JFS in anaconda, a fact that I didn't see
documented anywhere, you couldn't have pick a worse choice for handling an
unsupported filesystem. You just decide to ignore what was in fstab and without
any user notification create a new /usr. Wouldn't it have been a much better
choice to stop the installation and let the user decide what to do like you do
for third party rpms?

Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2003-02-13 21:57:42 UTC
It's not supported because it's not a filesystem type we allow you to create
during the installation process.   I'll fix this better in a future release, but
for now am just sucking the jfs module onto the second stage and then it'll
mount.  It's still not a supported configuration, though.

Comment 7 Harris Landgarten 2003-02-13 22:32:41 UTC
If an upgrade installation runs to completion, you should deliver a stable
working system. There must be something you can do to abort the installation if
a system partition is on a jfs volume. Even if you can't read the volume in
stage one, you can certainly read fstab so long as /etc isn't jfs. Secondly,
isn't a missing /usr an exception that should be noticed.

I know you can do better than creating a new partion and then mounting the jfs
partion on top of it making it invisable and not notifying the user that
anything is wrong.


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