Curtin reports writing a DD as configuring storage

[Lee Trager]

MAAS 2.6 surfaces messages from the event log on the machine listing page. This allows users to see what action a node is taking at a glance. I deployed a VMware ESXi image with MAAS 2.6. The VMware ESXi image is a DD, we support minimal storage configuration options which are applied as a first boot script, outside of Curtin.

Curtin reports to MAAS that it is configuring storage for the entire time the DD is being written to disk. The 'installing OS' messages are barely visible since nothing happens in that stage. Curtin should consider applying a DD the installation part, not configuring storage.

Node event log:
21:38:37 - Node powered on
21:40:40 - PXE Request -installation
21:41:41 - Configuring storage
21:43:42 - Configuring networking
21:43:43 - Installing OS
21:43:44 - Configuring OS
21:45:45 - Installation complete - Node disabled netboot
21:45:36 - Applying post installation config
21:47:40 - Node changed status from 'deploying' to 'deployed'

MAAS version tests 2.6.0 master - 489f71ed24815695c0cbfee4176b687c4ed3f96a

[Ryan Harper (raharper)]

Please provide the curtin debug logs, https://discourse.maas.io/t/getting-curtin-debug-logs/169.

[Lee Trager (ltrager)]

Attached is the Curtin debug log

[Jerzy Husakowski (jhusakowski)]

Curtin issue, will be handled within MAAS when it's fixed and a new version of Curtin is integrated in MAAS.