> > As long as you are talking crazy new features, how about reconsidering > > allowing people to create a raid 1 device with one drive as part of the > > install process, to make adding another device later simpler: > > * 188314 - Raid installs should allow only 1 drive when using raid 1 > > Hm, we've always avoided allowing the degraded RAID installs. I'll > defer to someone else on if we should ever consider this and why/why > not. While the request originally asked about degraded, it was later changed to set up an array with just one device. (I didn't initially know that you could do that.) If you already have a raid 1 array with one device AND a file system set up on it you can install to it. At one time I had a separate request complaining about anaconda refusing to install to degraded arrays. It was explained that this was a dangerous thing to do, and once I found I could have a raid 1 array with one device that wasn't degraded I didn't see a need for installing to degraded arrays. (As I have just been using mirrors I could easily set the array to not be degraded. There may be some demand for this ability from people using other types of raid where you can't do this.) The advantage of doing this is that an element of a raid array has slightly less space available than it would otherwise. So that changing to a raid array later is not easy to do. The alternative is to manually set up the device yourself, but it is easy to make mistakes do that as you don't get the defaults from anaconda any more. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
