On 03/28/2014 09:47 AM, Bill Davidsen issued this missive:
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.
This really needs to be aimed at the fedora-test list, since that's
where the development stuff is going on.
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