Re: Retaining software RAID devices during automated installation with autoyast

On Thu, Jun 20, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> Doing automated installation of server with / on ext3 on software RAID 1 mirror of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 and /home on xfs on software RAID 10 of /dev/sda3, /dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3, /dev/sdd3.
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> I want to preserve /home when doing an automated reinstall of the machine.  I can keep the existing partitions fine and they get assigned to MD devices correctly.
> 
> However whilst the partitions are being kept fine, I see the messages "deleting MD device" (or some such wording), followed by "creating MD device" (or similar wording) and indeed it then fails to mount /home as the xfs file system is not there any more.  )-:
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> If I set <create config:type="boolean">false</create> for the partitions on the /dev/md device in the autoyast file then the md devices are still destroyed but then not created again so the install fails immediately as there is nowhere to install.  )-:
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> Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> Is there any way I can get autoyast to preserve the existing md devices?

From a first glance, this looks like a bug to me.

I probably can try to reproduce this here next week and will
be able to tell more afterwards.

If you could provide log files (complete content of /var/log/YaST2) of
one or both of the failed installations this could be helpful. 

Bye, 
	Thomas Fehr
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