2014-02-22 3:08 GMT+01:00 Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com>:
On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:38 PM, John.Florian(a)dart.biz wrote:
> That makes a lot of sense, but I'd like to add that when doing custom
partitioning, you can easily spend the bulk of your actual interaction time
getting the partitioning customized exactly the way you want and when
anaconda crashes,
What you're essentially suggesting is the necessary trade off between
stability and features isn't being balanced, in your experience. I'd agree
with that assessment. I've done hundreds of Windows installs and thousands
of OS X installs and those installers never crash. Ever. Seriously never.
You can throw the most bizarre crap at them, even a disk with 42 partitions
of just linux and BSD and they don't crash. And what interaction time? It's
point and install. There's nothing to interact with because there are no
options.
> However, when I have my admin hat on, I want flexibility.
I don't find that a compelling argument for many reasons, not least of
which is the tens of thousands of OS X and Windows admins who get few
install time layout choices, and they seem quite content.
The necessary context to add here is that both OS X and Windows have much
better _post-install_ layout choices. Both can convert a non-encrypted
filesystem to encrypted post-installation, online, without significant
downtime. Re: LVM, IIRC OS X is setting up CoreStorage by default; Windows
uses plain partitions, but can convert plain partitions into Dynamic Disks
without backup&restore.
The capabilities of the underlying storage stacks are different, so a great
UI for one may not be an acceptable UI for the other.
Mirek