Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

[David Lehman]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:20 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hey, everyone. So, right now, the Beta criteria include:
> 
> "The installer must be able to create and install to software, hardware
> or BIOS RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5 partitions for anything except /boot"
> 
> We specifically excepted /boot at the request of the anaconda team.
> However, it seems lots of people want to do /boot on RAID and we checked
> in again with the anaconda team this morning, and pjones and bcl appear
> to be of the opinion that it ought to be supported. So, I'm proposing
> modifying the criterion for F17 to read simply:
> 
> "The installer must be able to create and install to software, hardware
> or BIOS RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5 partitions"

Yaboot and grub1 can only do RAID1 as far as software RAID goes. grub2
can do 0, 1, or 5.

Dave

> 
> Mo has already written up a test case for /boot on RAID which we can use
> to test this in future.
> 
> Any thoughts, modifications, objections? Thanks!