RAID install proposed blocker

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu May 3 11:22:39 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 22:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > /boot on RAID was, for a long time, considered a problematic
> > configuration and is explicitly excepted from the release criteria. I
> > believe the anaconda team's attitude towards this configuration is
> > becoming somewhat more liberal, though, so we may have to re-consider
> > the criterion.
> 
> That part of the criterion was pointed out, so I tried the install again with 
> /boot being non-raid and it still had the same problem.  I managed to do a 
> workaround, so it's now running the way I originally wanted it (/ on raid).
> 
> Anaconda lets you make that configuration, the bootloader supports it, and it 
> works (other than that one bug), so it seems that that part of the criterion may 
> be outdated now.

The above three things have often been true in the past, but whenever
anyone hit problems and filed a bug, the anaconda devs would usually say
'well, we don't really support /boot on RAID'. The criterion exception
was added at their request, even though all the things you mention were
true at that time.
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