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Bug #6232

libdiskmgt should support blkdev devices

Added by Hans Rosenfeld almost 5 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Hans Rosenfeld
Category:
-
Start date:
2015-09-15
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage
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Description

libdiskmgt doesn't handle blkdev very well. It doesn't understand the relationship between blkdev and the drivers using blkdev, so it cannot report controller information for blkdev devices. This causes problems with code assuming that an unknown controller type is a serious issue.

I have reason to believe that this is the issue that some some distros using Caiman as installer have trouble installing on virtio-block devices.

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Updated by Dan McDonald almost 5 years ago

Correct - Caiman doesn't see blkdev devices specifically because of libdiskmgt. If this gets fixed, I can confirm/deny that it helps Caiman.

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