Does anyone know the reasons behind that decision? In my experience, Linux software RAID is exceptional in performance and stability.
Gerald ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Hunt" <[email protected]> > To: "Paul Gray" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 12:46:58 PM > Subject: Re: [PVE-User] md installer? > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > pve-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
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