My understanding was that PVE does not now and will never in the future support the softraid capabilities of Linux. If RAID is wanted than the only option is old-school hardware RAID.
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Paul Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/04/2013 06:30 AM, Paul Gray wrote: > > I think, I may be wrong, that the Barebone Installer is not customizable > at all, and won't be. > > The installer is configurable to the extent that any distribution's > installer iso is configurable. You just need to know where the > installation components are and how they interact. > > The origin of my question to the list arises from the hints of md > support already in the places within the installation. > > After ISOLINUX expands the initrd and finds its proxmox iso image, the > init script invokes /sbin/unconfigured.sh on the ISO mount. > > In the final acts of /sbin/unconfigured.sh, there's a commented-out line > to shut off md device md0, indicating that there was once a time when it > was enabled. > > But there's quite a bit more: For example, after proxmox finds the > installation media and starts up X, the installation contiues from > openbox/.xinitrc to invoke /usr/bin/proxinstall. > > Within the /usr/bin/proxinstall script, one finds this code in the > probing for disks: > > foreach my $hd (@$hds) { > my ($disk, $devname) = @$hd; > next if $devname =~ m|^/dev/md\d+$|; > print "found Disk$disk N:$devname\n"; > } > > So the installer is specifically excluding md devices when looking for > disks. > > Naturally this begs the question of what would happen if one added > modprobe's for md raid support (right after the modprobe of dm_mod in > unconfigured.sh), removed the "next if..." line in the proxinstall > script above, reconstituted the ISO, and booted it up to "see what > happens." > > It seems that someone else had probably already done this. If no one > else has done it then it's likely someone would be willing to offer > advice on why enabling support for md devices would be "a bad thing(tm)" > or at least offer some insight as to why md devices are specifically > avoided in the present installer. > > -- > Paul Gray -o) > 314 East Gym, Dept. of Computer Science /\\ > University of Northern Iowa _\_V > Message void if penguin violated ... Don't mess with the penguin > No one says, "Hey, I can't read that ASCII attachment ya sent me." > _______________________________________________ > pve-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user >
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