On Jul 17, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 15:20 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Jul 17, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 13:36 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Does 'new automatic partitioning variant' mean 'another option in the >>>> drop-down box in Installation Options', more or less? >>> >>> Exactly that - at the moment. >>> >>> However...what we really lack here is some sort of explanation of the >>> tradeoffs between the various options. A GtkComboBox with ["LVM", "LVM >>> (Thin Provisioning)", "BTRFS"] pretty much required one to consult >>> external documentation before this change, and certainly understanding >>> all of the tradeoffs around thin provisioning will only make that need >>> more pressing. >> >> Should it even be in Guided's Installation Options? Or should it be an >> option within Manual Partitioning? > > Installation Options is a part of *both* paths. It affects the defaults in Manual Partitioning, but it doesn't act as a limiter to Manual Partitioning. e.g. XFS nor RAID are in Installation Options; yet I can still use them in Manual Partitioning regardless of how Installation Options is set. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
