Re: F26 Self Contained Change: Anaconda LVM RAID

2017-01-31 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 15:52 -0400, Robert Marcano wrote: > On 01/31/2017 03:44 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > > > Also: does this apply to /boot partition RAID 1?  IIRC that didn't > > work > > with LVM RAID at one time. > > > > This is important, that mdraid is still available in anaconda and >

Re: Fedora Rawhide-20160915.n.0 compose check report

2016-09-16 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 22:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 04:45 +, Fedora compose checker wrote: > > > > New failures (same test did not fail in Rawhide-20160914.n.0): > > > > > > ID: 34503   Test: x86_64 Server-dvd-iso > > server_realmd_join_kickstart > > URL:

Announce: blivet-2.0.0

2016-03-29 Thread David Lehman
Hi everyone, I would like to announce the release of blivet-2.0.0[1]. See the release notes[2] for information about all of the changes in this version and the documentation[3] for the public API specification. Some of the larger changes:  - full PEP8 compliance  - thread-safety  - added support

Announce: blivet-2.0.0

2016-03-24 Thread David Lehman
Hi everyone, I would like to announce the release of blivet-2.0.0[1]. See the release notes[2] for information about all of the changes in this version and the documentation[3] for the public API specification. Some of the larger changes:  - full PEP8 compliance  - thread-safety  - added support

Re: default btrfs partitioning setup

2015-06-04 Thread David Lehman
On 06/02/2015 06:08 AM, Neal Becker wrote: I have an older setup created by anaconda from 2013, and it looks like UUID=7246327b-1905-4fe2-9b6b-b9376017264f / btrfs subvolid=5,subvol=root00 0 0 UUID=2c04be93-34c1-4016-ba41-60fd9fd90616 /boot ext4 defaults

Re: libblockdev reaches the 1.0 milestone!

2015-05-29 Thread David Lehman
On 05/25/2015 08:56 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 21.05.2015 20:08, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: A year ago, I started working on a new storage library for low-level operations with various types of block devices -- *libblockdev*. Today, I'm happy to announce that the library reached the

Re: Does your application depend on, or report, free disk space? Re: F20 Self Contained Change: OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning

2013-07-26 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 22:59 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:17 PM, DJ Delorie d...@redhat.com wrote: If your package reports disk space usage to users, and bases this on filesystem free space, please consider whether it might need to take LVM thin provisioning into

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-17 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:07 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 05/17/2013 01:31 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 16.05.13 16:17, Bill Nottingham (nott...@redhat.com) wrote: Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: RequiredBy= WantedBy=dmraid-activation.service I'm not

Re: when startup delays become bugs

2013-05-17 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 17:45 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 17.05.13 10:18, David Lehman (dleh...@redhat.com) wrote: On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:07 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 05/17/2013 01:31 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 16.05.13 16:17, Bill Nottingham

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-05 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 08:59 -0600, Pete Travis wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:29:21AM -0600, Pete Travis wrote: equated to the memory

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-04 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:29:21AM -0600, Pete Travis wrote: equated to the memory requirements for the running environment, especially for cloud guests. @minimal requires less memory to install than a full desktop - but does anyone

Re: well!

2013-03-12 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 20:17 +0100, Till Maas wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:47:07AM -0400, Digimer wrote: On 03/12/2013 12:41 AM, Charles Zeitler wrote: i don't like giving up control over my machine (partitioning), so i won't be upgrading to Fedora 18. i'll watch the web site for a

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 07:46 +1030, William Brown wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 13:17 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:37 -0500 Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: I'm waiting until Anaconda settles down before I pursue btrfs in Fedora again. Things change too

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-12-06 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 14:01 -0600, David Lehman wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 12:09 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 10/19/2012 10:01 AM, David Lehman wrote: This is the main piece of functionality that's still missing: allocating devices from preexisting VGs. You can create and destroy

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-11-21 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 12:09 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 10/19/2012 10:01 AM, David Lehman wrote: This is the main piece of functionality that's still missing: allocating devices from preexisting VGs. You can create and destroy lvm devices. You can reuse existing LVs, optionally

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 17:20 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/08/2012 05:14 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 8 November 2012 10:06, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +, Jóhann B.

Re: Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

2012-11-08 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 20:47 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/08/2012 08:40 PM, David Lehman wrote: No. It is an inevitable consequence of the feature set demanded of the Fedora OS installer. If thing A must be able to set up and configure thing B and thing B changes in ways

Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

2012-11-01 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 13:01 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/01/2012 12:22 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Maybe having some kind of dependencies between feature could also be a idea. Anaconda requires dracut to not change, so we need a way to express this, and a way to avoid changes at

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-10-29 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 01:06 +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno mar, 16/10/2012 alle 13.22 -0500, David Lehman ha scritto: Repeat for swap. (Hint: enter swap as the mountpoint when adding the device initially) Ok, thanks, this steps work with a TC6. There is a method to use and mount

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-10-29 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 16:15 +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno lun, 29/10/2012 alle 09.05 -0500, David Lehman ha scritto: Just select that device and enter the desired mountpoint without changing the filesystem type or activating the Reformat checkbutton. Where is the Reformat

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-10-26 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 09:36 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 10/25/2012 10:46 AM, David Lehman wrote: It is planned (but at risk) for the beta and a must-have for GA. If it's a must-have for GA, but it isn't in the beta, how does it get tested? Before it goes in it will be discussed

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-10-25 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 18:24 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 10/19/2012 10:01 AM, David Lehman wrote: You can create and destroy lvm devices. You can reuse existing LVs, optionally reformatting them. You can encrypt or decrypt them. What you cannot do is allocate new LVs from old VGs. That's

Anaconda is giving birth to Blivet

2012-10-25 Thread David Lehman
The anaconda package is going to be rearranged somewhat for F19. The package is going to be split into three pieces. The main anaconda package will contain only the pyanaconda python module, while the install-time bits and their dependencies will be split out into a sub-package. This will enable

Re: Plans for anaconda LVM/RAID support

2012-10-25 Thread David Lehman
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 12:10 +0200, Milan Broz wrote: On 10/07/2012 02:36 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: I'm sure that this information is somewhere on the Fedora Wiki, but my search-fu apparently isn't up to the task of finding it. What are the plans for LVM and/or software RAID support?

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-10-19 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 23:12 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 10/18/2012 05:02 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm not sure what 'indication' you're expecting, exactly. AIUI, existing RAID arrays and VGs should just show up in the list of existing filesystems on the left-hand side of the custom

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-10-17 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 14:28 +0200, Richard Marko wrote: Previous structured partitioning dialog was much better compared to this. Why it was removed in favor of this confusing thing? to keep you on your toes, of course -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)

2012-10-16 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 15:29 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: Hi, I have download the last Fedora-18-Beta-TC4 to do some tests http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-TC4/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-Beta-TC4-x86_64-netinst.iso How to install it on a empty disk and use LVM (or create a

Re: Booting Fedora from LVM with grub2

2012-03-23 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 19:41 +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: Hallo, because I have read, that grub2 should be able to boot from LVM. I have done the following test in a VM 1.) Fresh install of Fedora 16. Unfortunately, I can't create a disk which contains olny a volume group, so I have

Re: Booting Fedora from LVM with grub2

2012-03-23 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:19 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: David Lehman wrote: I was able to complete an install of F17-Alpha just now with all lvm. I had to force the use of MSDOS disklabel instead of GPT (used parted's mklabel command on tty2 while the anaconda prerelease warning

Re: F17 bootloader error

2012-02-15 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:41 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: When trying to do test install against F17Alpha TC2, during partition layout, I get error below... you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device I have F16 installed on here, and even reformatted the disks to GPT before I

Re: Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

2012-02-02 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:15 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: There's various issues with the hfsplus utilities we ship at the moment, including the fact that fsck.hfsplus crashes on 64-bit. I'd like to update this to the latest upstream, but code to generate legacy HFS (ie, pre-HFS+)

Re: Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

2012-02-02 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 02:43 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 06:25:50PM -0600, David Lehman wrote: My understanding is that the so-called Apple Bootstrap filesystem required for ppc Macs to boot is HFS. That's what anaconda uses for it. If we could be using HFS

Re: BTRFS on LVM causes long fedora-storage-init run?

2011-10-07 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 10:31 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: I am, however, running BTRFS on main main partitions on top of LVM (since anaconda as of F15 still creates an LVM setup regardless of filesystem?) FYI as of F16 there is a checkbox on the what type of partitioning do you want? screen (near

Re: Anaconda forced to create a BIOS boot partition, but not boot on Lenovo S205

2011-09-26 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 10:30 +0800, Liang Suilong wrote: I bought a new notebook for my jobs, Lenovo IdeaPad S205 (AMD E-450 APU), building in MeeGo modified by Linpus. There is no BIOS in it, just using UEFI. And there is no BIOS compatibility mode. So I must use EFI GRUB. As we knew, Fedora

Re: Fedora 16 Alpha i386 does not install in VMWare

2011-08-26 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 23:13 -0700, a...@clueserver.org wrote: I have tried installing Fedora 16 alpha (i386 version) on VMWare player and it dies starting up the installer. It also dies trying to install on my CTL 2GO pad. (Atom based tablet.) Same type of death as the vmware? Any ideas

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-25 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 17:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 16:17 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: While installing Fedora 16 Alpha, I ran into some problems that turned out to be caused by the installer formatting with a GPT rather than an MBR partition table. I would