Very slow Fedora 22 installation

Mrinmoy Roy tintin4u20 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 12:16:53 UTC 2015


Hi,

Can you tell me which .iso are you using for Fedora 22..?

Thanks



On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Roderick Johnstone <rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm currently running a Fedora 22 kickstart install to one of our backup
> servers. Its been running for nearly a day now!
>
> The root partition is on ext4 but there is a btrfs file system on top of
> md raid6 that holds our user backups. Each users' files are rsycned to the
> btrfs filesystem and then a snapshot made, so there are many thousands of
> snapshots.
>
> Currently the install has been running for nearly a day (the main screen
> is full of dots). Behind the scenes the installer seems to be working its
> way through all the snapshots with messages like this in storage.log:
>
> 05:11:42,844 INFO blivet: hiding device existing 9.1 TiB btrfs snapshot
> home_xxx/20130423-000501 (59677) with existing btrfs filesystem
> 05:11:42,848 DEBUG blivet: existing RAID raid6 size == 9.1 TiB
> 05:11:42,852 DEBUG blivet: existing RAID raid6 size == 9.1 TiB
> 05:11:42,857 DEBUG blivet: BTRFSVolumeDevice.removeChild: kids: 32903 ;
> name: btrfs.133 ;
> 05:11:42,858 INFO blivet: removed btrfs snapshot home_xxx/20130423-000501
> (id 59677) from device tree
> 05:11:42,858 DEBUG blivet: lvm filter: adding home_xxx/20130423-000501 to
> the reject list
> 05:11:43,540 DEBUG blivet: existing RAID raid6 size == 9.1 TiB
>
> In my kickstart file I have a (legacy) line which I use to make sure that
> there is no possibility of the install happening to the wrong device:
> ignoredisk --only-use=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST380815AS_9RA8ZRZK
>
> where ata-ST380815AS_9RA8ZRZK is the disk I want to install the operating
> system to.
>
> Is it possible that this is whats causing the slowness?
>
> I guess I could remove the ignoredisk line now since I use the by-id name
> to identify the disk to install to in the 'part' commands. I think we
> introduced 'ignoredisk' ages ago when we had to specify partitions by names
> like /dev/hda1 and I was caught out once when the disks were enumerated in
> a different order in the installer than in the previous operating system I
> was using and the install happened to the wrong device.
>
> I'm disinclined to interrupt the install at the moment, as it does seem to
> be making progress, but confirmation that removing the 'ignoredisk' line
> would avoid the issue I described would be useful.
>
> Thanks
>
> Roderick Johnstone
>
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