filesystem formatting progress bar frantically bounces back and forth

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Chris Lumens wrote:

> >   while i'm on a roll, on both the i386 and x86_64 installs, when
> > i select the default partitioning (/dev/sda1 for /boot and LV for
> > the root fs), the progress bar dialog that comes up doesn't slowly
> > show formatting progress from left to right as it used to.
> >
> >   instead, a progress indicator bounces frantically back and forth
> > from left to right until the formatting is done.  is this a new
> > feature?  it's kind of disconcerting.
>
> It's just us not reading the output of the mkwhateverfs command the
> way we used to.  Making it go slowly is a pretty low priority item
> right now, given that there's plenty of other partitioning bugs to
> deal with.

  no problem, i'm just listing 'em as i see 'em.

rday
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