From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 Description of problem: Anaconda fails to detect ReiserFS partitions that are located on software RAID devices. Upon examining the anaconda code it appears that ReiserFS is unsupported on software RAID devices. I am aware that ReiserFS is not supported by Red Hat. However, the installer does have the "reiserfs" option which allows installing on such a partition, including a RAID device. Currently, any such installation on a software RAID device is unable to be upgraded, while a ReiserFS installation on a simple device is able to be upgraded. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-9.0-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 2 copies of Red Hat 8.0, one with / on a simple (/dev/hda1) ReiserFS partition, the other with / on a software RAID (/dev/md0) ReiserFS partition. 2. Attempt an upgrade to Red Hat 9. Actual Results: Anaconda will locate only the installation on /dev/hda1. It is not possible to upgrade /dev/md0. Expected Results: Anaconda locates and allows upgrades on both /dev/hda1 and /dev/md0. Additional info: I have modified the code to detect a ReiserFS superblock. This in turn allows the existing code to mount and operate on a ReiserFS RAID partition, in both upgrade and rescue modes. See attachments for details.
Created attachment 90970 [details] Additions to fsset.py
Created attachment 90971 [details] Changes to partedUtils.py
Added to CVS (with some formatting changes)
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