On Wed, Oct 22, 2014, at 09:58 AM, Chris Lumens wrote:
Well, the point of that first patch from me here (which references
bug
1138820) was to provide a mechanism to allow them to set that default
for just a single product. There's been no further work along those
lines, nor talk in the bug, so I imagine it's still not implemented.
But it certainly ought to be easy to do so now.
Makes sense. Maybe ping sgallagh to see if he can make F21 Server use
it now?
--fstype is there to define the formatting used. Think of it as the
string you would add after "mkfs." to make a filesystem. Perhaps --type
is more what you're thinking of, given that it is used to define what
kind of scheme you want?
That sounds right.
I'm not sure why a new autopart argument would
be handy here, though.
There are two crosscutting things:
1) We want this partitioning layout to apply *by default* to install
media for [distribution] Atomic.
2) I would like to allow the many people who won't want the rpm-ostree
part of Atomic (yet), but *do* want a Docker-optimized system to be able
to easily set that up. Right now, it's not *too* hard to do in a
kickstart, but the thing with kickstart is (afaik) it's hard to perform
dynamic computation based on the install media size or layout - you end
up needing to template kickstarts on the server side based on the
install host target, etc.
If we can get an "autopart --type=docker" verb or so that has good
Docker defaults, I imagine it would have good uptake.