Re: F20 Self Contained Change: OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning

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On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 16:59 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 13:36 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Does 'new automatic partitioning variant' mean 'another option in the
> > drop-down box in Installation Options', more or less?
> 
> Exactly that - at the moment.  
> 
> However...what we really lack here is some sort of explanation of the
> tradeoffs between the various options.  A GtkComboBox with ["LVM", "LVM
> (Thin Provisioning)", "BTRFS"] pretty much required one to consult
> external documentation before this change, and certainly understanding
> all of the tradeoffs around thin provisioning will only make that need
> more pressing.

Installation Options is basically the single most problematic part of
the entire anaconda newUI; this is just another problem to throw on the
gigantic pile, unfortunately...
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