[Parted-maintainers] Bug#315009: md (software) RAID missing in the installer for sparc

[Josip Rodin]

Hi,

I couldn't help but notice that there is no support for software RAID arrays
in the sparc installer.

All I found to document it was:

partman-md (24) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Fabio M. Di Nitto ]
  * RAID cannot be selected if we are on sparc AND the partiton starts at 0
    otherwise there will partition table corruption happening in the first
    512 bytes of the disk.
    (NOTE: this will work only once patch for sparc/raid support will make it
           in parted)                                                        
[...]
 -- Frans Pop <fjp at debian.org>  Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:30:04 +0200

Oddly enough, I can't seem to find the problem there, because parted code
doesn't seem to have exceptions for sparc...

Some more digging excavated me the bug #315009, saying the "Use as: physical
volume for RAID" option is missing. That bug was closed with:

Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:45:22 -0300
[...]
 parted (1.6.25.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
   * Apply patch to fix RAID usage in SPARC. Thanks to Fabio Di Nitto
     <fabbione at sunfire.int.fabbione.net> (Closes: #355467)

So how come this didn't propagate into debian-installer for etch?

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