On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 08:49 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
I tried to make a mirrored /boot partition, and then a second
mirrored
partition with an LVM volume group on top of that (including / and /home
partitions). The current UI doesn't offer this, although it was easy to do
in the old one.
I'm not exactly excited about holding things up further, but does this need
an exception to final release criterion #8:
"The installer must be able to create and install to any workable
partition layout using any file system offered in a default installer
configuration, LVM, software, hardware or BIOS RAID, or combination of
the above."
?
It seems like it does, but I think the wording is ambiguous. (What is
workable? What does "offered" apply to?)
Brian Lane notes that there's not enough time to re-add this feature:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888863
Also, this is further complicated because LVM now has its own mirroring and
RAID features which could be used instead of the software raid (I think this
is what RHEL 6.3+ docs now recommend, in fact, but I'm not sure -- I'll
definitely defer to the storage experts on this).
Let's see...I'd say that what the criterion really means - what it was
written for - is 'you should be able to successfully create any sane
layout the custom partitioning mode will let you create'. That's what
'offered' is about (at the time, btrfs support was available but only
via a sekrit command line parameter, hence 'offered in a default
installer configuration'). So I'd say that if custom part actually
doesn't allow you to do what you're trying to do, that's okay. If it
tries to do it, but blows up when you try, that would be a blocker
candidate.
The criterion wasn't really written to cover the case we're in now,
where the installer is being rewritten and bits of functionality are
being lost; it's more appropriate to a 'steady state' installer whose
capabilities are fairly well defined.
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