Re: F21 partitioning circus

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/23/2015 01:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> And you have backups right? Because by definition it's not important
>> unless you have backups.
>
>
> First, I'd like to point out that just because the installer isn't supposed
> to modify your partitions without your explicitly selecting them doesn't
> mean that it never happens.

OK I have probably well in excess of 500 man hours testing Anaconda
over the past couple of years, and I've never seen it. And I'm a bug
magnet. I make things break just by looking at them.

So if there's no bug citation I'm considering this in the realm of
conjecture. It's a unicorn.


> It's always possible for a bug to rear its ugly
> head and mark /home for reformatting even though you've specified that it's
> to be used as is, or for a bit to flip, changing the value of a flag.

Umm? OK well the moon could possibly fracture tomorrow and we all die.
What you're talking about has no potential for mitigation. It's not a
reproducible bug, it's just bad luck.




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