Hey Mika! On 10/15/2010 01:30 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: > > as promised I just released FAI stable release 3.4.4. > > Binary packages of FAI 3.4.4 are available at: > > http://people.debian.org/~mika/fai/release/ > > [snip] > > Please upgrade to FAI 3.4.4 and report back if you notice any problems. > Thanks to all involved people for their excellent work!
Finally! Had some time for testing. (Having time is relativ, but who cares.. ;)) Nice work! Thx! This is my review so far: * The fstab-problem is gone. Fine![1] [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/8024 * still problems with RAID1 + grub-pc Altough I actually /have/ found a working setup for myself I thought I should point out this problem again: When creating a RAID1 and using the class GRUB_PC, grub only get's installed into "(hd0)" (see 10-setup). After creating such a setup, boot into the system. Wait until the disks are in sync (watch /proc/mdstat). Now shutdown and remove sda. You'll notice a non-booting system. Altough Michael [Tautschnig] merged some of my patches into the (his?) experimental-branch[2], these changes never hit trunk. (Sorry, Michael: I really had no time to test your experimental package and in the end I forgot about it...) So thread [2] is still valid. You might consider the (second) 10-setup-patch. [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/7572/focus=7575 The script works for raid and non-raid systems like the following: disk_config/LVM: disk_config disk1 bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid primary /boot 250 ext3 rw primary - 1500- - - disk_config lvm vg vgroup disk1.2 vgroup-root / 250-750 ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro vgroup-swap swap 250-1000 swap sw vgroup-var /var 500-2G ext3 rw createopts="-m15" tuneopts="-c0 -i0" vgroup-tmp /tmp 250-1000 ext3 rw createopts="-m1" tuneopts="-c0 -i0" vgroup-usr /usr 500-3G ext3 rw tuneopts="-c0 -i0" vgroup-home /home 100-2G ext3 rw,nosuid createopts="-m1" tuneopts="-c0 -i10" disk_config/RAIDLVM: disk_config sda bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid primary - 250 - - primary - 1500- - - disk_config sdb bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid primary - 250 - - primary - 1500- - - disk_config raid raid1 /boot sda1,sdb1 ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro raid1 - sda2,sdb2 - - disk_config lvm vg vgroup md1 vgroup-root / 250-750 ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro vgroup-swap swap 250-1000 swap sw vgroup-var /var 500-2G ext3 rw createopts="-m15" tuneopts="-c0 -i0" vgroup-tmp /tmp 250-1000 ext3 rw createopts="-m1" tuneopts="-c0 -i0" vgroup-usr /usr 500-3G ext3 rw tuneopts="-c0 -i0" vgroup-home /home 100-2G ext3 rw,nosuid createopts="-m1" tuneopts="-c0 -i10" (Taking /boot out of the LVM is actually not necessary anymore, as grub-pc can handle /boot in an LVM.) * reuse LVM-on-RAID disks (it may be an LVM-only problem but I did not encouter this problem without RAID) ... Steps to reproduce: Use a maschine with two hdds (sda/sdb). Use a (simple) setup or use a disk layout like my RAIDLVM above and deploy the machine. And then do it again. (That should wipe away all data...!) But: FAI fails with: [snip] Executing: yes | mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=raid1 --force --run --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 Executing: mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 Executing: yes | mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=raid1 --force --run --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sda2 Executing: pvcreate /dev/md1 Command had non-zero exit code Error in task partition. Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task main FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped. FAI then dropped me to the shell. I then did the following to check-out the problem: % pvcreate /dev/md1 Can't initialize physical volume "/dev/md1" of volume group "vgroup" without -ff I manually did a "pvremove -ff /dev/md1" and re-ran FAI. That worked. I also checked the fai.log and noticed that setup-storage seems to scan for volume groups after partitioning the disks. Maybe it should do that after creating the RAID-setup too... Regards and thank you all for your work! - Darsha
