On Saturday 29 March 2008, Joel Johnson wrote: > I have previously [1] reported an issue I encountered when using previous > installation images. I checked the Lenny beta1 installation images > (netinst) and the same problem still occurs. Namely, newly created md > devices are find, but scanning and activating existing md devices makes > partman think that the md device is partitionable.
I think I've found the cause. The problem was with a combination of assembled pre-existing RAID devices and LVM. The cause of the issue was almost certainly that when existing RAID devices were activated, they were created as /dev/mdX instead of /dev/md/X. The sync flag exception handling in partman-lvm only allowed for the second and not for the first, and thus created a "flags change" on the RAID device which parted would try to write, resulting in the error message. Both issues have been addressed: - mdcfg 1.24 will assemble pre-existing RAID devices as /dev/md/X - partman-lvm 60 excludes both /dev/md/X and /dev/mdX I'll upload the fixed versions soon (probably later today). Cheers, FJP
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