On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 18:14 +0100, Garrett LeSage wrote: > On 25/02/16 16:06, David Lehman wrote: > > Right. Just about any time you make an assumption to significantly > > simplify storage you're going to be wrong. Sad but true. > > Yeah, it's not possible to cover every case all the time and do so in > an > easily understandable manner for most things... but especially > something > as complicated as storage. > > > With regard to Workstation partitioning, however, I'm confident that > we > can make life nicer for at least 80% - 90% of the people using > Anaconda. > That's one of the goals of this effort, at least. I can appreciate that, provided it retains some basic flexibility. > > For the other 10 - 20% of people installing Workstation who really > do > want to specify everything, they will still have a similar/familiar > advanced interface to do so. The difference is that we won't drive > everyone into the advanced partitioner (and force them to even > understand partitioning or complicate storage things they *could* > possibly do). People seem to resist this, but it would be really great IMO if we could stop calling it "partitioning" and start calling it "storage configuration" since partitioning is only a fraction of what goes on. > > > There are three main cases for Workstation installs: > 1. Empty disk(s). It's obvious what to do here... Have a predefined > recommended partition layout and use that. Advanced partitioning > spoke > can, of course, still be selected from the Hub screen for fine-tuning > or > completely different layouts. > 2. Disk(s) with data, with more than enough room for Fedora. Same as > #1, > except existing data will not be wiped out. We did that in F18 or F19 and several users (including me) didn't like that you don't even have the option of making more space in this case. Also, thanks for working on this. David > 3. Disk(s) with data, but not enough room. This is where the simple > partitioning screen shows up. There's a path through the advanced > paritioning tool as an action on this screen (and you can also get > back > from the Hub screen). > > So: 1 & 2 (enough space due to empty disk or pre-partitioned disk) > will > be pre-configured by default. 3 will show the resize screen (which > has > options to go to the advanced installer or erase and use the entire > disk, in addition to resizing). > > It does get a little more complicated when there are multiple (non- > USB / > non-SDcard) storage devices on the system; I have some ideas and > will > work on mockups to handle that soon. > > > Partitioning on a Server install is a different beast, of course. > We're > not there yet; the first step is mainly simplifying Workstation. I'm > not > sure how much simplification (if any) can happen on a Server install. > > > Cheers, > Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
