F21 partitioning circus

[poma]

On 23.02.2015 01:19, Alex Regan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02/22/2015 06:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Heinz Diehl <htd+ml at fritha.org> wrote:
>>> On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them.
>>>> And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't
>>>> ever crash, or ask the user to create required partitions, they always
>>>> succeed in their penultimate goal which is to install a bootable OS.
>>>
>>> Frankly, the vast majority of the users of those operating systems
>>> aren't even capable of installing them by themselves.
>>
>> The users don't know these things because they don't have to know
>> them, not the other way around. There's no benefit in them knowing
>> such things it's not intrinsically valuable knowledge for the
>> majority. It's sufficient that a scant minority know such things.
>>
>> Look at even Android and cyanogen. Look at the reinvention of all OS's
>> for mobile devices and how much simpler things are when constraining
>> choices. Chromebooks are in that same category. Simple. Just works.
>> They picked a layout and stuck with it.
>>
>> And that's not to say the layout of my cyanogen phone is exactly
>> simple, it uses GPT partition scheme, and has 28 partitions. (Of
>> course that's not by my choice, I had no say.)
> 
> On a somewhat-related note, is it now possible with F21 to create a 
> RAID1 /boot?
> 
> I can see this as being one reason for an "escape to parted/fdisk" option.
> 
> I'm curious why this option has been so elusive for anaconda over the 
> years? A situation where a failed /dev/sda in an otherwise RAID5 system 
> is really unfortunate and requires a whole lot of extra work when things 
> go bad.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 

EXTLINUX RAID1 intro
https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2013-June/msg00032.html

At the time this worked for me. ;)