Hi again, Am 20. Oktober 2026 22:41:49 MESZ schrieb Holger Wansing <[email protected]>: >Hi, > >Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> wrote (Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:58:29 >+0200): >> AFAIK, platforms which support IMSM are: >> - Intel Matrix Storage Technology (IMST) on SATA - EOL. >> - Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) on SATA - EOL. >> - Intel Volume Management Device (VMD) on NVMe - current. >> - Intel RAID on CPU (VROC) on Xeon + NVMe - current. >> >> It should be mentioned in BIOS/UEFI options or boot screen. Even though, >> no need for specific hardware: an IMSM container and volumes can be >> created and used on SATA (and maybe NVMe) drives on any amd64 physical >> or virtual machine in d-i with a small adjustment. >> >> Regarding how common it is, the only use cases I can think about are: >> - dual boot with Windows on the same drives >> - seamless redundant UEFI boot > >Ok, so if you think it's worth the effort, given there are some valid >use cases, and fakeRAID has a reasonable user basis, I'm ok with this >approach. > >Since I can only do tests via the "IMSM container and volumes created >on a SATA drive on a amd64 virtual machine" path, it would be good, to >have one or more users, who can do tests on a physical machine, ideally >with one of the above mentioned hardware platforms. > >Are you aware of someone?
Looking at above listed use cases, they look like corner cases or special situations driven by advanced users/experts. And these people should be able to manually partition their fakeraid system, not needing guided partitioning. Since this bug is adressing partman-auto, it only affects guided partitioning, while manual partitioning is always possible, even if we revert commit 7dfd6208, as you proposed in bug #1146054. Is this correct? If yes, I think the best solution would be to simply revert commit 7dfd6208 in partman-auto. That would still support partitioning of these fakeraid systems in general (via manual partitioning) and solve the problems mentioned in bug #1146054 (and this with minimal effort and minimal risk). Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
