On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:23:14 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote:

Am 11.05.2010 10:49, schrieb Lukas Grässlin:

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I tested archlinux-2010.04.19-core-x86_64.iso and have some issues with installing with a lvm:

* It would be very very nice if I could say when creating a logical volume: "Take all the free space in the volumegroup" (aka -l100%FREE)

Good idea!

I didn't run into this yet because I tend to only assign a fraction of the available space during installation (i.e. on a 300GB volume, I use 10GB for system, 4GB for swap and 20GB for /home, let the rest unused).

same here. I think this is the most common way to use lvm. see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13425 for -l feature request.

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* If I type a value greater than the free space in the vg the installer says it encountered errors. Would be better if it is checked, if the value exceeds the free space.

Good idea. Also didn't run into this for the same reasons.

patch welcome. although in combination with the -l option, this would get needlessly complex; know that the lvm setup is only created after everything is defined. so either you get the feature above or this one, both at the same time gets messy, but i hope i can be proven wrong.

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At the current state I wouldn't use the Installers capability to create a LVM because it's a bit glitchy.

Always worked for me so far.

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The same is true of the capability of creating dm-crypt volumes. Till now I was not able to set up a working scenario with LVM atop of dm-crypt. The Installers also fails with some errors. (I don't have more information about this yet because it's a bit longer ago. I will retest it)

I installed a system using AIF from git in February or March I think (the current CDs contain a newer AIF version). I had no trouble setting this up back then.

Recently some issues have been fixed where additional options specified by the user caused aif to break. other then that, the code hasn't much changed reliability-wise. and for me personally it works fine. Dieter

On Tue, 11 May 2010 07:13:42 -0400 Matthew Monaco wrote:

I've done a number of lvm2/luks setups. On the luks end, are you setting your keysize too low? For aes-xts-plain, the key size can only be 256 or 512, so if you set it to 128 you'll have a problem.

The other thing I've wound up doing every time for it to work is to make sure I use the same exact name for the encrypted disk and the vg. So typically I call the dm-crypt parition "vg0" so it mounts to /dev/mapper/vg0

Matt

huh? i don't see why you would need to use the same names. you know we have a bugtracker right? Dieter

On 05/13/2010 02:51 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:44:34 +0200 Lukas Grässlin wrote:

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Hi there again :)

I forgot another thing: If I have two disks and I want to use the secons disk completely as PV I normally don't need a partition on that disk, i just do:

pvcreate /dev/sdb and that's it.

In AIF I have to create a partition that fits the complet disk size.

Of course, thats no problem. I just wanted to told this to you ;)

no you don't. afaik, aif lets you do what you want.

Dieter

Mh sorry, my fault. With the latest iso I also can use entire disks as PV. Alright ;) Another thing I just yet encountered is, that when creating a lv if I enter a greater value than the vg size is (the thing from my first post in this thread) of course the creating fails. AIF tells me "Error creating...etc". So far, so good, but if I klick "Enter" it tries again and again to create the lv and fails of course. I'm in a loop and only can exit the installer. -- Lukas Grässlin GnuPG-Key: http://lg.ath.cx/lukasgraesslin@gmx.de.asc

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Another thing I just yet encountered is, that when creating a lv if I enter a greater value than the vg size is (the thing from my first post in this thread) of course the creating fails. AIF tells me "Error creating...etc". So far, so good, but if I klick "Enter" it tries again and again to create the lv and fails of course. I'm in a loop and only can exit the installer.

use the rollback feature. Dieter

How may I use this when I can't escape from this loop. It always tells me "Error creating lv..." and after confirming that it tells me again. -- Lukas Grässlin GnuPG-Key: http://lg.ath.cx/lukasgraesslin@gmx.de.asc

On Thu, 13 May 2010 15:28:43 +0200 Lukas Grässlin wrote:

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Another thing I just yet encountered is, that when creating a lv if I enter a greater value than the vg size is (the thing from my first post in this thread) of course the creating fails. AIF tells me "Error creating...etc". So far, so good, but if I klick "Enter" it tries again and again to create the lv and fails of course. I'm in a loop and only can exit the installer.

use the rollback feature. Dieter

How may I use this when I can't escape from this loop. It always tells me "Error creating lv..." and after confirming that it tells me again.

well if you can't, that's a bug and it should be reported. Dieter

On Thu, 13 May 2010 15:37:34 +0200 Lukas Grässlin wrote:

On 05/13/2010 03:33 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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On Thu, 13 May 2010 15:28:43 +0200 Lukas Grässlin wrote:

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Another thing I just yet encountered is, that when creating a lv if I enter a greater value than the vg size is (the thing from my first post in this thread) of course the creating fails. AIF tells me "Error creating...etc". So far, so good, but if I klick "Enter" it tries again and again to create the lv and fails of course. I'm in a loop and only can exit the installer.

use the rollback feature. Dieter

How may I use this when I can't escape from this loop. It always tells me "Error creating lv..." and after confirming that it tells me again.

well if you can't, that's a bug and it should be reported. Dieter

Obviously it's not completely AIFs fault, cause I already had an volumegroup there. (I totally forgot this).

Maybe it's possible for AIF to check if there are alredy volumegroups or something or is this not useful? I don't know if that will be a good idea or not. If yes I may create a bug report/feature request.

you're the user, you know you have a VG, just don't add another one with the same name. (BTW the rollback feature will make aif undo all changes it did itself, ie it will remove VG's it made, but not the one you already had.) if you want this feature, someone will need to contribute a patch. Dieter