On 07/03/2013 09:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On 2013-07-03 10:02, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>>> "DL" == David Lehman <dlehman@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> DL> That user can create the array prior to installing the OS. >> >> Boned again, I see. Seems to be my lot in life. > > I don't see how this is 'boned'. It is not practical to try and > implement, in anaconda, a partitioning tool that can do every damn thing > under the sun that the underlying tools are capable of. anaconda/blivet > is already a *lot* more capable than most distro installers; at some > point you just can't crowbar any more complexity in there without making > it pretty much unusable. > > It seems pretty reasonable to me to say 'look, there are some configs we > just can't reasonably put in the UI, if you want to use them, pre-create > them'. It's not a *life sentence*, or anything. It's not like it's > particularly hard to pre-create your layout. Hell, some people prefer to > do it that way. Blivet is not *only* installer. It's used also in OpenLMI, which aims to administer storage stuff on running system. If Anaconda finds it too confusing to offer RAID 10 on 2-3 drives in GUI, it's fine for me. But blivet as generic storage administration library IMHO should allow this, especially if it was working in the past. Jan _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
