On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 09:17 +0100, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 11:46 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 11:17 +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > Don't try to be smart to everyone, it does not work. IMHO all you
> > need is to support one or a very few scenarios (complete scenarios
> > without customization) and a way how to switch from installer
> > to manual partitioning by parted/fdisk/mdadm/mkfs/etc.
> >
> > The anaconda partitioning UI will never be smart enough for
> > advanced users and it also does not make sense to duplicate effort,
> > we *already have* tools to create all the unusual crazy disk layouts.
>
> We don't, really. Well, we do, but it really is "tools" plural, and
some
> of them don't have GUIs at all. blivet and its anaconda GUI really is
> one of the most advanced partitioning tools in existence. There's no
> one-stop graphical tool that does everything blivet/anaconda does,
> AFAIK. gparted can't do anywhere near the LVM, RAID and btrfs stuff that
> blivet does: it really only does *partitions*.
Just to let you know -- a guy from Prague Technical University is
working on a bachelor thesis [1] focused on starting the development of
a GUI partitioning/LVM/RAID/BTRFS tool based on blivet that should be
embedable into other applications, Anaconda included.
The omitted link:
[1]
https://thesis-managementsystem.rhcloud.com/topic/show/180/a-tool-for-sto...
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Vratislav Podzimek
Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic