David Härdeman wrote: > 1) Swap on LVM in partman-auto-lvm > > I sent an RFC on this more than a month ago. Not much discussion > resulted, I got a few positive comments and no negative comments. Is > this ok to commit?
Not commenting on this just because I don't know anything about it, not because I don't want it to happen. :-) > 2) Concerns over an overcrowded partman-auto menu > However, I think that we should split it into two screens: > > <example> > Manually edit partition table > Erase disk and create new partitions > Erase disk(s); use LVM for new partitions > Erase disk(s); use LVM for new encrypted partitions > <example> > > If you select "Erase disk and create new partitions" you'd then get: > > <example> > Please select the disk to erase: > > SCSI1 (0.0.0) (sda) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... > SCSI2 (0.0.1) (sdb) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... > SCSI2 (0.0.1) (sdc) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... > </example> This feels backwards. It asks the user to select what to do with a disk, before they select the disk. I understand why you're doing that; we don't want to have a multiselect list of disks unless LVM or RAID was selected, especially since users find multiselects confusing. Still, I think that asking the questions backwards like this is not good UI. How about this: <example> Select a disk to autopartition, or advanced partitioning option: Manually edit the partition table Erase disk: SCSI1 (0.0.0) (sda) - 2.1 GB ... Erase disk: SCSI2 (0.0.1) (sdb) - 2.1 GB ... Erase disk: SCSI2 (0.0.1) (sdc) - 2.1 GB ... Set up LVM Set up LVM with encrypted partitions Set up a RAID array </example> The autopartition items go directly to the partition scheme menu. The RAID and LVM go to something like: <example> Select the disk(s) to erase and use with LVM: [*] SCSI1 (0.0.0) (sda) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... [ ] SCSI2 (0.0.1) (sdb) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... [ ] SCSI2 (0.0.1) (sdc) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... </example> <example> Select the disk(s) to erase and use as a RAID array: [*] SCSI1 (0.0.0) (sda) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... [ ] SCSI2 (0.0.1) (sdb) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... [ ] SCSI2 (0.0.1) (sdc) - 2.1 GB VMware, ... </example> > This allows multiple disks to be used for LVM or RAID and should > simplify the preseeding to use two values: method and disks to use. Unfortunatly, my approach does not make the preseeding as clean as that. -- see shy jo
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