Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/25/2014 12:10 PM, Powell, Michael wrote:
I disagree; if a user is presented with the following filesystem choices,
btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, JFS, reiser4, reiserFS, and ZFS, and each is
presented equally with a single paragraph describing its benefits, unless the
user has prior knowledge about what is the best choice for the intended
installation goal, they're most likely going to spend a great deal of time
reading each paragraph. If you simplify the choices to 4 instead of 8, the
user has less paragraphs to read and can make a decision faster.
Agreed. However, it might be a good compromise to list only the most common
selections, with a button marked Advanced Options (There's probably a better
label, but if so, I can't think of it right now.) containing the rest.
Beginners will, most likely, avoid that, but those who need/want the more
specialized file systems will still have access to them.
This is absolutely just what is needed. Any hope it could get into fc21? If I
could pick three things for some future release, they would be:
- better install for controlling allocation of storage by device
(but keep the serial number visible!!)
- install without using network, even if available
(because slow nets and/or per-byte charges prohibit upgrade to current)
- a more minimal "minimal install" would be nice.
Anyway, having access to full control, somewhere easy to find, would probably
solve many complaints. Thanks for listening.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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