On 03/22/2016 03:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Stephen Gallagher
<sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> * Default guided partitioning scheme (sgallagh, 15:07:14)
> * LINK:
>
>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/server@lists.fedoraproject....
> (sgallagh, 15:09:06)
> * AGREED: Linked proposal is accepted. (+6, 0, -0) (sgallagh,
> 15:48:29)
> * AGREED: We will make this change for Fedora 24 Beta. (+5, 0, -2)
> (sgallagh, 16:05:25)
> * ACTION: jds2001 to write release notes and update documentation to
> cover the change in defaults (sgallagh, 16:06:00)
> * ACTION: sgallagh to prep the partitioning changes this week
> (sgallagh, 16:10:04)
Once we're past alpha and there's a compose with this change, I'll do
what I do best and try to blow it up. I have a good idea where the
edge cases might pop up.
You can test with it today if you want to, just add
updates=https://sgallagh.fedorapeople.org/product.img
to the kernel boot line of any recent F25 Server Alpha candidate install media.
If there ends up being a problem or even a concern, I see two
straightforward paths: a.) minimally up the max size, b.) punt to F25.
I think 15GiB is probably reasonable, since the whole DVD media is 1.8GiB; even
uncompressed and installing everything on the image, it's not likely to break
that limit.
Any change beyond minimally upping the max size make this not a
tweak,
and thus into punting territory in my opinion. But I think it's safe.
Agreed; if there's any serious issue with this, I'll pull it out of
consideration for F24.
And it's also not the last tweak. If some other changes can
happen for
F25/F26 then it does actually make sense to leave the extra space as
unpartitioned free space. Who knows, someone might want space that's
not LVM managed... maybe they want a dmcrypt volume directly on a
partition.
This came up during the meeting. The decision we came to was that the tooling
isn't currently available for this, so designing the defaults around that case
wasn't useful *right now*. (It can be handled with manual partitioning or manual
use of Cockpit after installation).