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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
