Re: Non-deterministic ordering of raid partition creation...

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:44:38 -0500,
  James Olin Oden <james oden gmail com> wrote:
> 
> I might be able to live with this, but again I ask is this desirable
> behavior?  I can see after thinking through this a bit how in the case
> where you were installling over an existing system and partitions were
> not being cleared that there would have to be a bit more flexibility
> as to the ordering of partitions, but I would have assumed that when
> the partitions were cleared, you would end up with same order as was
> specified in the kickstart file (implicitly via the order of the part
> declerations in the kickstart file)?  Is this not a reasonable
> assumption?

It might make sense to put the smaller partitions or the boot partition first
to get around some BIOS restrictions.