Bug 387373

Summary:	Partitioner: allow cloning of disk layouts - was: easier creation of RAID 1
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Christian Boltz <suse-beta>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Matthias Eckermann <mge>
Status:	RESOLVED FEATURE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aschnell, coolo, gp, mge
Version:	Beta 1
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Hardware:	Other
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Description Christian Boltz 2008-05-06 18:15:57 UTC

It would be good to have an easier way to setup a raid 1 (mirroring).

Currently you have to:
- create partitions on first disk
- create partitions on the second disk (usually using the same layout)
- put the corresponding partitions (sda1+sdb1, sda2+sdb2, ...) into a raid 
  array.

The easier way would be
- [x] I want to create a raid 1
- define the partitioning once for both disks

YaST should then
- partition both disks as requested and
- create the raid volumes

This would save the user/admin some time.


However, the traditional method should still be available in case someone wants to have a different layout for some partitions for whatever reason.

Comment 2 Matthias Eckermann 2008-05-07 02:10:22 UTC

Thanks for the proposal. I am happy that there are more people out there
sharing my problems:-)

Yet, looking at the current "model" we have in mind for partitioner
enhancements, I wonder, if we could probably make that more "generic" by 
adding something like a "clone disk partitioning scheme" button:
You would partition hd0 first and then say: please clone this to hd1, hd2, ...
and be able to adjust settings on hd1, ... later.

Would that fit?

so long -
MgE

Comment 3 Christian Boltz 2008-05-08 11:07:14 UTC

Cloning the disk layout sounds like a good idea and would help.

To make it more useful for RAID creation, add "clone to md*", maybe combined with a selection dialog to choose the disks to use.

Comment 4 Matthias Eckermann 2008-05-08 11:26:16 UTC

Well, you know, we indeed are planning to have such a dialog for 
creation of raids in the future, ...:-)

I changed the "title" according to our discussion,
and will 1transfer the request into our internal
Feature tracking system soon.

Thanks!

so long - MgE

Comment 12 Arvin Schnell 2008-07-08 10:48:35 UTC

RPMs of the partitioner redesign are available in the buildservice in the repository home:aschnell, for factory and for the YaST SVN backport on 11.0.

But cloning is not implemented yet (and fate entry is still not decided).

Comment 13 Andreas Jaeger 2008-10-24 11:14:01 UTC

Is this one now done?

Comment 14 Matthias Eckermann 2009-01-21 12:39:10 UTC

Please see.

openFATE#303809: Partitioner: allow cloning of disk layouts - was: easier creation of RAID 1