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Management of local disks

On clusters with local disk(s), oneSIS can partition and initialize local hard disks to be swap partitions or ext2 filesystems at boot time. Support for any other kernel-supported filesystem will be added in a future release.

When detecting disks, oneSIS assigns a number to each disk it finds as determined by the kernel order seen in /proc/partitions. This allows the configuration to specify that it wants to use the first disk, for example, rather than requiring a specific device name. oneSIS can detect any disk device that shows up as a normal block device if the appropriate drivers are loaded.

Support for specifying disks explicitly by their device name (or disklabel) will be added in a future release.

Note: For rc.preinit or mk-diskful to operate on a disk, the driver must already be loaded. This means the disk driver needs to either be compiled directly into the kernel, or the module needs to be loaded from an initrd.


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root 2005-06-19