On Monday 08 May 2006 09:16, Bastian Blank wrote: > I fixed the hardware configuration for s390 yesterday. It works > flawless now except that it needs some further indicators that it did > something.
Great.
> Now it is time to switch to partman as partconf is completely out of
> order.
Yes, it would be nice to be able to use partman for S/390 too.
> This leads to a list of requirements in partman:
> - Default disk label per disk type. DASD needs ibm disklabels,
> fiberchannel disks needs something else, mostly used is msdos.
This is set in default_disk_label in definitions.sh in partman-base.
Sounds like it may need a bit more complex detection than used for other
arches.
> - Support for non-default SCSI. It displays any different SCSI types as
> "SCSI... (...)" which is only appropriate for plain old SCSI but not
> for new types like libata, fiberchannel or iSCSI.
No idea.
> - Templates for dasd.
Probably the simplest item on the list :-)
> - Needs to use persistent device names. Is there some progress already
> or must I do that myself? s390 requires either /dev/disk/by-path
> (usable both for booting and in fstab) or /dev/disk/by-{id,uuid}
> (only appropritate in fstab).
I'll come back to that in a separate mail.
> - Must save exact informations about the root device or any device
> which is needed for them if it is LVM/MD. s390 don't have device
> autoconfiguration and therefor must know, which device it needs to be
> configured to get the root.
No idea about this.
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