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[Clonezilla-user] Any way to tell clonezilla to exclude or ignore SAN presented disks?
Nick Stuyt
2010-11-21 04:25:55 UTC
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Hello,

We have Proliant DL series systems - some with EMC SAN cards installed
and some without.

I've been investigating clonezilla and find that it works great with the
non-SAN systems but spins continuously on the SAN presented disks of a
SAN capable system.

By spin I mean it complains about sd<letter-a> for a while then starts
with complaints about sd<letter-b> and then goes onto the next letter.
There are even Call Traces mixed in with the verbose messages so I
assume some crashing is happening as well.
I never reach a prompt.

I'd like to know if there is a way to tell clonezilla to ignore or
exclude these SAN presented devices.
I suppose that may involve customizing a clonezilla iso of my own (not
attempted this yet) but I have not yet found a kernel option that looks
an "exclusion or ignore" option.

Thank you very much,
Nick
Steven Shiau
2010-11-24 21:49:18 UTC
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Hi,
Post by Nick Stuyt
Hello,
We have Proliant DL series systems - some with EMC SAN cards installed
and some without.
I've been investigating clonezilla and find that it works great with the
non-SAN systems but spins continuously on the SAN presented disks of a
SAN capable system.
By spin I mean it complains about sd<letter-a> for a while then starts
with complaints about sd<letter-b> and then goes onto the next letter.
There are even Call Traces mixed in with the verbose messages so I
assume some crashing is happening as well.
I never reach a prompt.
I'd like to know if there is a way to tell clonezilla to ignore or
exclude these SAN presented devices.
I suppose that may involve customizing a clonezilla iso of my own (not
attempted this yet) but I have not yet found a kernel option that looks
an "exclusion or ignore" option.
I do not see any boot parameter which we can skip the
/etc/init.d/open-iscsi service. I believe it's better to disable this
service, only keep the programs. If people need to start that, start it
manually.
Do you agree?
If so, I will change that in the next release.

Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
Thank you very much,
Nick
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Steven Shiau
2010-11-24 21:52:52 UTC
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Wait.. I found the open-iscsi service is not started automatically by
default.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?

Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
Hello,
We have Proliant DL series systems - some with EMC SAN cards installed
and some without.
I've been investigating clonezilla and find that it works great with the
non-SAN systems but spins continuously on the SAN presented disks of a
SAN capable system.
By spin I mean it complains about sd<letter-a> for a while then starts
with complaints about sd<letter-b> and then goes onto the next letter.
There are even Call Traces mixed in with the verbose messages so I
assume some crashing is happening as well.
I never reach a prompt.
I'd like to know if there is a way to tell clonezilla to ignore or
exclude these SAN presented devices.
I suppose that may involve customizing a clonezilla iso of my own (not
attempted this yet) but I have not yet found a kernel option that looks
an "exclusion or ignore" option.
Thank you very much,
Nick
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Nick Stuyt
2010-11-25 14:32:29 UTC
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I've been using this iso:
clonezilla-live-1.2.6-32-i686.iso

Thanks very much.
Nick
Post by Steven Shiau
Wait.. I found the open-iscsi service is not started automatically by
default.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
Hello,
We have Proliant DL series systems - some with EMC SAN cards installed
and some without.
I've been investigating clonezilla and find that it works great with the
non-SAN systems but spins continuously on the SAN presented disks of a
SAN capable system.
By spin I mean it complains about sd<letter-a> for a while then starts
with complaints about sd<letter-b> and then goes onto the next letter.
There are even Call Traces mixed in with the verbose messages so I
assume some crashing is happening as well.
I never reach a prompt.
I'd like to know if there is a way to tell clonezilla to ignore or
exclude these SAN presented devices.
I suppose that may involve customizing a clonezilla iso of my own (not
attempted this yet) but I have not yet found a kernel option that looks
an "exclusion or ignore" option.
Thank you very much,
Nick
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Steven Shiau
2010-11-29 05:35:14 UTC
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Hi Nick,
So does Clonezilla live 1.2.6-40 or 1.2.6-45 still have this issue?

Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
clonezilla-live-1.2.6-32-i686.iso
Thanks very much.
Nick
Post by Steven Shiau
Wait.. I found the open-iscsi service is not started automatically by
default.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
Hello,
We have Proliant DL series systems - some with EMC SAN cards installed
and some without.
I've been investigating clonezilla and find that it works great with the
non-SAN systems but spins continuously on the SAN presented disks of a
SAN capable system.
By spin I mean it complains about sd<letter-a> for a while then starts
with complaints about sd<letter-b> and then goes onto the next letter.
There are even Call Traces mixed in with the verbose messages so I
assume some crashing is happening as well.
I never reach a prompt.
I'd like to know if there is a way to tell clonezilla to ignore or
exclude these SAN presented devices.
I suppose that may involve customizing a clonezilla iso of my own (not
attempted this yet) but I have not yet found a kernel option that looks
an "exclusion or ignore" option.
Thank you very much,
Nick
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John Morrison
2011-08-09 03:38:11 UTC
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Post by Steven Shiau
Hi Nick,
So does Clonezilla live 1.2.6-40 or 1.2.6-45 still have this issue?
Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
clonezilla-live-1.2.6-32-i686.iso
Thanks very much.
Nick
Post by Steven Shiau
Wait.. I found the open-iscsi service is not started automatically by
default.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
Hello,
We have Proliant DL series systems - some with EMC SAN cards installed
and some without.
I've been investigating clonezilla and find that it works great with the
non-SAN systems but spins continuously on the SAN presented disks of a
SAN capable system.
Hi Steven,

I tried this Friday 5 August 2011 with the latest Clonezilla release
- 1.2.9.19-i486

Environment is also HP DL380, hardware raid with LVM for root, EMC San,
normally using powerpath 5.1 for san access.
I have the same issue with MANY devices being identified, and it takes
hours to scan through them all.
Most of them do not correlate at all with the devices present, either
on size or names etc.
Steven Shiau
2011-08-10 09:46:43 UTC
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Hi Nick,
Did you mean the scan during booting, or during clonezilla is run?
If it's booting, could you identify which startup service is doing?
Thanks.

Steven.
Post by John Morrison
Post by Steven Shiau
Hi Nick,
So does Clonezilla live 1.2.6-40 or 1.2.6-45 still have this issue?
Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
clonezilla-live-1.2.6-32-i686.iso
Thanks very much.
Nick
Post by Steven Shiau
Wait.. I found the open-iscsi service is not started automatically by
default.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Steven.
Post by Nick Stuyt
Hello,
We have Proliant DL series systems - some with EMC SAN cards installed
and some without.
I've been investigating clonezilla and find that it works great with the
non-SAN systems but spins continuously on the SAN presented disks of a
SAN capable system.
Hi Steven,
I tried this Friday 5 August 2011 with the latest Clonezilla release
- 1.2.9.19-i486
Environment is also HP DL380, hardware raid with LVM for root, EMC San,
normally using powerpath 5.1 for san access.
I have the same issue with MANY devices being identified, and it takes
hours to scan through them all.
Most of them do not correlate at all with the devices present, either
on size or names etc.
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