Very slow Fedora 22 installation

[Roderick Johnstone]

Hi

Network install with inst.repo=http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirr
ors/fedora/linux/releases/22/Server/x86_64/os
but with 'everything' repo added in kickstart file

Roderick

On 18/06/15 13:16, Mrinmoy Roy wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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