DANGER!!! Problems with 10.04 installer (RAID devices *will* get corrupted)

Alvin Thompson alvin at thompsonlogic.com
Tue Apr 27 16:33:05 UTC 2010


On 04/27/2010 12:20 PM, J wrote:
> Also mentioned this in the bug comments, but FWIW, I don't use sparse
> files in my VMs... each disk is a fully allocated disk before it's
> ever used in a VM.. I've had too many issues with sparse files in the
> past to mess with things that are not fully grown :-)

I don't know enough about how VMs handle their storage to hazard a 
guess, in that case. But if you're not seeing the problem, it must 
matter. Getting the installer to detect those non-extant file systems is 
a prerequisite for the bug to occur.




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