Hi,
On 02/22/2015 06:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Heinz Diehl <htd+ml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote:
Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them.
And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't
ever crash, or ask the user to create required partitions, they always
succeed in their penultimate goal which is to install a bootable OS.
Frankly, the vast majority of the users of those operating systems
aren't even capable of installing them by themselves.
The users don't know these things because they don't have to know
them, not the other way around. There's no benefit in them knowing
such things it's not intrinsically valuable knowledge for the
majority. It's sufficient that a scant minority know such things.
Look at even Android and cyanogen. Look at the reinvention of all OS's
for mobile devices and how much simpler things are when constraining
choices. Chromebooks are in that same category. Simple. Just works.
They picked a layout and stuck with it.
And that's not to say the layout of my cyanogen phone is exactly
simple, it uses GPT partition scheme, and has 28 partitions. (Of
course that's not by my choice, I had no say.)
On a somewhat-related note, is it now possible with F21 to create a
RAID1 /boot?
I can see this as being one reason for an "escape to parted/fdisk" option.
I'm curious why this option has been so elusive for anaconda over the
years? A situation where a failed /dev/sda in an otherwise RAID5 system
is really unfortunate and requires a whole lot of extra work when things
go bad.
Thanks,
Alex
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