On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:26:12PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > I have quickly reviewed all bug reports against these two packages and > > no bugs seem to mention this issue. Either the relevant installation > > reports were not sorted correctly or we can assume that it is a pretty > > minor issue and that our users did work around it themselves. > > This is not about users complaining about it, but about internal > consistency. The locking infrastructure was added by David as part of > p-crypto and then also added for new LVM devices.
Oh… Ok. So devices and partitions locking are a feature that was added during Etch development cycle. As partman-md has not really received the attention it should have since, the code has not been updated to use locking as well. Did I understood you correctly? Do you see the absence of proper locking infrastructure as a blocker for the changes in the initialization model? For partman-md in Lenny? Let's agree that partman-md should really be reworked on during our next release cycle ; as I have read many time, by its complete inclusion in partman as a first task. > I think I extended it to be used for pre-existing LVM volumes (but I may be > wrong). Quoting do_initial_setup() in partman-lvm/choose_partition/lvm/do_option: [ "$RET" = true ] && log-output -t partman-lvm vgchange -a y # TODO: We need to update and lock the devices that LVM just claimed Despite its roughness, the patch proposed earlier locks Physical Volumes properly after the initial device detection. Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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