On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 5:13 PM Jan Höppner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 06/05/2021 09:00, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> > When installing SuSE (15SP2) I cannot use the installer to format a 3390
> > which is thinly provisioned from the disk system. The installer will fail
> > when formatting.
> > I can do a dasdfmt manually with "-M full" before starting the
> > installation, and that will work. Is this a known bug?
>
> Hi Christer,
>
> I suspect there is still an issue with parallel formatting and
> thin-provisioned DASD devices in SLES15SP2. Do you have any logs
> or more details how this failure is expressed?
>
> I'll get in touch with Mark from Suse as he fixed the parallel
> formatting in SP3. I reckon we need these changes for SP2, too.
>
>
I suspect it's a bug in dasdfmt, because "-M full" is supposed to be the
default (according to the man page), but without that option
it will use quick instead.

-- 
chs

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