Default disk selection is irritating and disk selection is inflexible
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Cisco Openstack |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The default install disk is sdc. This doesn't work with most machines, but it's chosen because it used to be common for UCSes with various BIOSes.
However this conceals a wider problem, that 'sda' is also not the right choice for our test disks or for some users.
We propose a different default:
1. set the setting to 'first-disk' by default
2. in the preseed's preinstall commands, check for that and find the first usable disk per
which goes and looks for the first disk with a size (excluding the UCS virtual devices that sometimes enumerate first).
Run this iff the setting is first-disk and overwrite it on discovery.
In the future if we need other strategies (e.g. 'find me the disk on SCSI bus 2 LUN 0' - useful for mixed driver setups, as device ordering is not guaranteed with mixed drivers) we can add other meaningful values for the disk selection.
Changed in openstack-cisco: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |