On Monday, June 29, 2020 1:04:48 PM MST Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveDeviceMapperMultipathFromWorkst > ationLiveCD > > == Summary == > The Fedora workstation livecd is the default Fedora variant getfedora.org > advices people to download. > As such most Fedora workstation installs will be done from the livecd. This > means that any package which is part of the livecd will be part of the > default install for most users. > > device-mapper-multipath is 1 of only 2 packages in the default install > which still Requires the long obsoleted systemd-udev-settle.service, which > waits for all device-detection to be done + some extra waiting just to be > sure. This significantly slows down booting on various systems. > > Multipath support is only necessary for installations in data-centers or > other enterprise setups, as such having device-mapper-multipath on the > livecd is not really necessary. For installations which do actually need > this device-mapper-multipath the server installation iso can be used and > this is a better fit for such installations. > > == Owner == > * Name: [[User:jwrdegoede| Hans de Goede]] > * Email: hdego...@redhat.com > > == Detailed Description == > > device-mapper-multipath is 1 of only 2 packages in the default install > which still Requires the long obsoleted systemd-udev-settle.service. The > other package is dmraid see [[Changes/DisableDmraidOnFirstRun|Disable > dmraid.service on first run]]. > > Multipath support is only necessary for installations in data-centers or > other enterprise setups, as such having device-mapper-multipath on the > livecd is not really necessary. For installations which do actually need > this device-mapper-multipath the server installation iso can be used and > this is a better fit for such installations.
Actually, multipath is used outside of datacenters and enterprise setups. A better solution would be to use Anaconda to include it when configured, and leave it out otherwise.. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
