From 65246bdc017bf2753f3de573cbb0be8e2af704b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Gurevich <gurevich@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:35:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore 'File exists' error from storage pool build

---
 xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
index 90fe46524..5c0aee544 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/kvm.pm
@@ -234,7 +234,10 @@ sub get_storage_pool_by_url {
     eval { $poolobj->build(); };
     if ($@) {
         my $error = $@;
-        unless ($error =~ /vgcreate.*exit status 3/ or $error =~ /pvcreate.*exit status 5/) {
+	# Some errors from building storage pool object are safe to ignore.
+	# For example, "File exists" is returned when a directory location for storage pool is already there. 
+	# The storage pool still gets built, and the next statement to create storage pool will work.
+        unless ($error =~ /vgcreate.*exit status 3/ or $error =~ /pvcreate.*exit status 5/ or $error =~ /File exists/) {
             die $@;
         }
     }