On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 22:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Single disk: Neither Redundancy nor Optimized checkboxes should be selectable (either not visible or grayed out). > > Works this way in anaconda-18.18. > > > > 2-3 disks chosen: Optimized and Redundancy appear as radio buttons (mutually exclusive options) with Optimized selected by default. > > This is still broken in multiple ways for 2 disks: > > a.) By default neither one is checked, which doesn't make sense. Optimized performance (stripe) is the btrfs default for multiple device volumes. This kind of thing is very irritating. First of all, it makes sense -- just because btrfs-progs has one default doesn't mean that any other default is nonsensical. Second, I'm not too keen on chasing the btrfs-progs defaults. See, they can change as often as they like and I'm not interested in signing up for the game of keep-up. Someone other than me may find the desire or time to implement this, but it's not likely to be me. btrfs is starting to seem like a high-maintenence woman, except without all the wonders of womanhood. > > b.) When I check Redundancy on Root and/or Home, and then click back to the other, Redundancy is unchecked. So the checkbox isn't sticking. I've been thinking about this. I don't like exposing options for the parent/container in each its children. It's confusing at worst and weird at best. For F18 I'll have to come up with something that won't take too much time -- maybe just make sure the changes are saved/reflected across subvols. Eventually it will make sense to be able to specify subvolume versus volume as device type and only provide the volume-level options in the volume editor. > > c.) I can choose both options for just two disks, and btrfs raid10 requires 4 disks minimum. The checkboxes don't stick. I guess I'll have to disable that for now, then. At some point I may have time to flesh out the btrfs-specific raid backend, but for now it goes to the back burner. See the high-maintenance remark above. > > Honestly for 2-3 disks, the simpler UI is a radio button, not checkboxes. Having two different UIs depending on the number of disks is not simpler-enough for the user to justify the madness for the developer, so that's not going to happen. David _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
