On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:43:13 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/04/2012 10:49 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > >> David, you are fairly active on the mailing lists, and it's amusing that > >> > you totally missed the discussions related to the removal of AIF a few > >> > weeks ago. > > More to the point, as a maintainer of a fairly complicated set of packages, > > he should be following important announcements rather than shooting of > > emails when he personally encounters the changes. Or at least looking at > > the front pages > > > > Both points well taken. I do follow - to the greatest extent possible - the > changes with arch. Even scanning the dev list, I completely glossed over the > AIF removal, thus the email. After having completed the install without it, > I can say, AIF is sorely missed. > > The install guide that is currently in the wiki, does a good job, but it is > extremely terse. The install can be done with the install wiki, but it takes > an additional level of effort and Linux understanding than with AIF (and > that had no training wheels). The current install is silent on 'swap'. I > wanted a 500M swap, so I created on with cfdisk during install and added it > to fstab. Simple issue, but it was things like that that AIF did that really > helped cut down on the time/thought required for install. It is actually a good thing that a user is given a chance to stop and think -- saves several reinstall attempts. > > What is the current Arch policy for swap creation? Is it still recommended? > If so, for what systems? (RAM <X, other criteria?) Let me know and I'll add > it to the install wiki. Even if it is "Arch doesn't recommend swap > creation", that should still be there for all users that historically have > come to expect a swap. > There can be no policy since the amount of swap space depends on the mission the particular system is going to perform, although http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/ch-swapspace.html is still true. If you are really unsure, create a resizeable swap on top of LVM. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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