Re: storage rewrite bugs

[David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>]

Chris Lumens wrote:
> I made a new bug, AnacondaStorage, to serve as a tracker for the
> existing bugs and feature requests that I think we should address with
> the storage rewrite.  I think this list should include RHEL bugs as well
> as Fedora ones so we can get them taken care of for RHEL6 in advance.
> 
> Here's what I'm proposing to add.  Feel free to shoot down any of the
> crazy new features.  By the way, I'm ignoring the bootloader-related
> bugs here.  That seems like a whole different problem.
> 
> Bugs:
> * 131312 - Disk Druid is slow for thousands of LUNs
> * 149375 - Use file system label as default mount point
> * 213882 - Not calculating space prooperly for --grow
> * 219714 - Probing thousands of LUNs is slow
> * 418781 - iscsi --target doesn't work
> * 429197 - Be better about remembering choices in the UI
> * 437443 - Errors when VG is already full
> * 443184 - Error messages for mounted USB disks aren't useful
> * 444365 - Detect Mac disk labels
> * 447251 - Live install fails if there are active VGs
> * 462496 - ntfsresize freaks out
> * 466614 - Select the iscsi packages automatically on multipath devices
> * 467899 - LVM1 vs. LVM2 extent size enforcing
> * 467904 - anaconda doesn't find dmraid and create device nodes
> 
> Features:
> * 150670 - Make a /home (yes, I'm going here).
> * 248022 - Finish iSCSI support for rescue mode
> * 261321 - No popups for ignoredisk disks (lots of bugs about this;
>            we really ought to take care of it once and for all)
> * 430084 - Add NTFS mount point support
> * 447729 - Presentation of disks in partitioning UI isn't useful enough
> * 455465 - Another bug about ignoring warnings on ignoredisk disks
> * 455799 - Another bug about disk presentation UI
> * 459030 - Another bug about disk presentation UI
> * 461389 - Another bug about disk presentation UI
> * 464553 - Better GPT support
> * 464561 - Support more MD features
> 
> Crazy New Features:
> * 134638 - LVM striping support (could probably consider this one to be
>            "Support more LVM features")
> * 261181 - SAN filtering support
> * 291991 - Hardware-specific identifiers for storage devices (lots of
>            bugs about these two sorts of things, too)
> * 381641 - AoE support (here we go - the extra weird future stuff)
> * 435402 - Detect existing /home partitions
> * 463184 - FCP LUN discovery tool
> 
> So there you have it.  It's not actually nearly as long a list as I had
> anticipated.  But then, I didn't include most of the tangle of dmraid
> bugs we're seeing right now or the endless procession of LVM cache
> reading garbage that seems to hit us so often.

Very cool.  It's nice to see all of these bugs in one place.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI