Release criteria proposal: partitioning (alpha and beta)

[Chris Murphy]

On Oct 1, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:

> On 10/01/2012 11:53 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> I think it's a good design goal to get to, eventually, but I don't think it should be a release requirement for F18.
> Disk partitioning resembles open heart surgery.  The patient suffers when not done well.

Bad analogy. I therefore refuse the premise.

> If Fedora doesn't have good support for custom partitioning people like me will want to
> jump to a distribution that does have good support for custom partitioning.  And
> we will be debugging Ubuntu, Suse, etc. and not Fedora.

You haven't had a point and shoot [1] installer to date with Fedora. a.) parted always wipes the partition map and replaces it, even if you're not changing anything (which causes hybrid MBRs to be nuked, BTW); and b.) it will not let you install to a volume that it's also not set to format. I don't know if these two behaviors will persist in newui.


Chris Murphy


[1]I mean the user points the installer to an existing valid formatted partition(s) and the installer does not write out a new partition table, does not format the partition, it just starts installing.