I have 2 machines getting a kickstart file over the network. The same kickstart file is used for both. Each of them creates logical volumes in a different order. My understanding of anaconda is that it sorts each partition specification according to how "specific" it is. The reason I think this is a bug is that the same requests are being sorted/carried out in a different order on two different (identical hardware) machines. The order each machine creates the volumes doesn't change.<br />
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I first noticed this issue when I saw that the /local1 logical volumes were different sizes. On machine <a href="http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2">0000002</a>, where the local1 logical volume is created first, that volume is 12 GB bigger. I've included the parts of the files involved relevant to LVM below.<br />
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I don't like that anaconda ignores the order I give it partitions, but the fact that it can't even do it consistently is especially worrisome.
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