LVM volumes which span two or more physical disks breaks installs when installing unattended

Bug #321967 reported by DW
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kickseed (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When using the following options in a kickstart file:

zerombr yes
clearpart --all --initlabel
preseed partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
preseed partman/choose_partition string finish
preseed partman/confirm boolean true
preseed partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true

Disk partitioning is meant to be truely unattended, if the installer encounters a logical volume which spans two or more physical disks the installer gives a warning indicating that it cannot remove the lv/vg because it considers it "unsafe" at this point you get stuck in a loop and you are not given the chance to complete the installation (even manually).

Please consider both a) making it so that kickstart/preseed can indeed wipe out LV/VGs which span multiple physical disks AND b) making manual partitioning an option in situations where kickstart/preseed cannot handle an instance. I assume the same thing would happen with software RAID, although i haven't tried it yet.

It would be good if essentially no matter what the state of the target disk or disks the installer could remove the current filesystem.

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