On Dec 6, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2012-12-06 14:38 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed: > >> Why am I required to reformat? It prevents me from using file system options set at format time. > > Justification: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629311 Fedup doesn't require a reformat of root, does it? If not, why is that OK, but new installs need not merely a formatted file system, but a formatted file system done expressly and only by anaconda? To properly install to hardware RAID 0 or RAID 5 I have to use kickstart? That is absurd. And then there's the case of Btrfs which makes this untenable policy also, twice: 1. A Btrfs volume is compromised of one or more devices, it makes no sense to show me devices, but rather the volume. And I cannot reformat such a volume in the normal use case because by nature of that file system I can contain one or more OS's in their own subvols. The policy described in the bug above, in a Btrfs context, is as untenable as saying you must lose all of your partitions in order to install Fedora, or learn kickstart. (!) I'm seriously getting sand in my hoo ha now. 2. Anaconda's current default behavior for Btrfs installs, puts home in a Btrfs subvolume. Not on a separate partition. So this presents a contradiction. Either F19's anaconda needs to allow reuse of a Btrfs volume without reformatting it, or admit that F18's anaconda is making the wrong default recommendation. So which is it? Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
