** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Also affects: partman-auto (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
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Title:
Guided Partitioning does not list Software RAID devices on NVMe
Status in partman-auto package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in partman-auto source package in Xenial:
In Progress
Bug description:
[Impact]
Administrators wanting to setup software RAID over NVMe devices currently
will not see NVMe disks listed as members of an mdadm array.
[Test case]
1) Run d-i to the disk partitioner, on a system with NVMe devices.
2) Partition the devices appropriately to support Software RAID.
3) Add NVMe partitions to the mdadm array.
4) Verify that NVMe partitions are listed in the mdadm array.
[Regression Potential]
Minimal regression potential. This only affects NVMe devices. NVMe is special
in that it abuses some of the commonly used nomenclature for naming the various
segments of the disks you can create in firmware. partman filters partitioned
devices fairly bluntly as anything that contains 'p' followed by numbers as
partitioned devices; which breaks the workflow for NVMe only. This change may
allow otherwise unacceptable NVMe devices to be used to configure the Software
RAID array, which is an error that would be caught later during the
partitioning anyway (should trigger an error in mdadm if used incorrectly).
== Comment: #0 - Mauricio Faria De Oliveira <[email protected]> -
2016-08-19 14:56:18 ==
---Problem Description---
Guided Partitioning does not list Software RAID devices on NVMe
This happens because commit [1] in partman-auto only lists mdadm arrays in
wholedisk devices.
It filters out any array whose slave devices have a trailing 'p<number>', and
that is used by NVMe (e.g., nvme0n1p2).
There should be an exception for NVMe devices, since the installer requires
that mdadm arrays are created in partitions
(the 'Configure Software RAID' process automatically creates partitions even
if you select wholedisk devices).
Another option is for that restriction to be removed (it seems
conflicting/confusing w/ this installer behavior nowadays).
The attached patch adds an exception for NVMe, the conservative
approach, since this is wanted in 16.04 LTS. (patch also applies on
16.10 -- identical partman-auto versions).
[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-auto.git/commit/lib
/auto-shared.sh?id=7dfd6208c3f8e4cf574cab22c81241a80aba6cfb
Function path:
---
@ /lib/partman/lib/auto-shared.sh
1. select_auto_disk()
2. get_auto_disks()
3. is_wholedisk_mdraid()
Demonstration:
---
Software RAID device:
~ # grep ^md /proc/mdstat
md0 : active raid1 nvme1n1p1[1] nvme0n1p1[0]
~ # ls -1 /sys/block/md0/slaves
nvme0n1p1
nvme1n1p1
1) Notice there's no 'RAID1 device #0' in this list:
?????????????????????????? [!!] Partition disks
?
? Note that all data on the disk you select will be erased, but not
? before you have confirmed that you really want to make the changes.
?
? Select disk to partition:
?
? /dev/nvme0n1 - 1.6 TB Unknown
? /dev/nvme1n1 - 1.6 TB Unknown
? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK
?
? <Go Back>
2) Make this change (Go Back to main menu, then Execute a Shell)
~ # sed -i '243 i */nvme*) ;;' /lib/partman/lib/auto-shared.sh
3) Now the array is listed:
?????????????????????????? [!!] Partition disks
?
? Note that all data on the disk you select will be erased, but not
? before you have confirmed that you really want to make the changes.
?
? Select disk to partition:
?
? RAID1 device #0 - 1.6 TB Software RAID device
? /dev/nvme0n1 - 1.6 TB Unknown
? /dev/nvme1n1 - 1.6 TB Unknown
? SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 137.4 GB QEMU QEMU HARDDISK
?
? <Go Back>
Contact Information = Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <[email protected]
---uname output---
Linux ubuntu 4.4.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:05:18 UTC 2016
ppc64le GNU/Linux
Machine Type = N/A
---boot type---
CDROM / ISO image
---Install repository type---
CDROM
---Point of failure---
Other failure during installation (stage 1)
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