> Recently, I've been trying to set up LVM clients with FAI 3.2.4 for > Ubuntu, using Peter Gervai's well-placed LVM hooks. However, I keep > hitting the situation where sfdisk cannot read the partition table, and > mke2fs cannot create a filesystem, because it thinks the device is in > use. It's reproducible every time if I FAI-install the client more than > once. E.g., the first time I FAI-install the LVM-enabled host, it > works. But then, if I try it again (with the exact same disk_config), > sfdisk and mke2fs drop me to an emergency shell. I would guess it's > because it's unable to get the kernel to re-read the partition table > without a reboot, but I'm really not sure how FAI can get around that > situation, as there is currently no method for having FAI "pick up where > it left off" right after writing the partition table. > > Has anybody else encountered this? It really makes FAI unusable. > Here's the output from FAI when this happens (from fai.log). /dev/sda2 > was my LVM volume: >
Would it be possible to upgrade your fai packages to 3.2.10? These packages include a proper version of setup-storage (see also http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Setup-storage), which should be able to satisfy all your needs. Best, Michael
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