On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Chris Murphy
<lists(a)colorremedies.com>
wrote:
>If you
> pick Server or Cloud Edition using Everything netinstall, you get ext4
> on LVM with a massive /home volume rather unsuitable for servers, and
> no free space in the VG for docker-storage-setup to configure for
> itself. Everything netinstall's partitioning is the same as
> Workstation's.
That's wrong. Everything does something no other product does. It's
ext4 on LVM, with just root and swap LV's, with root taking up all the
space not reserved for swap. So...it'd work for Workstation and
Server, but it's not the WG intended layout where /home is separate
for Workstation, and for Server they want XFS and reserve space in the
VG for other purposes (separate /var possibly or space for
docker-storage-setup for containers). So I'd say while non-fatal, it's
also not ideal for any of the products and thus not worth blocking on.
I lived under the impression that Workstation netinst only offers you Workstation package
set by default, and Server netinst the Server package set. That was my major concern, not
partitioning layout. But I tried it again today, and I see all package sets on both
images. So I was clearly wrong.
The partitioning setup on Everything netinst seems to me to be actually the best universal
choice for any use case (it's not the intended setup for any flavor, yes, but still
better than e.g. having a Workstation with Server partitioning layout, or vice versa). For
Workstation users, the only case where you need to install from Everything netinst is when
a) your hardware can't boot Workstation Live b) Workstation netinst has optical boot
broken c) you can't boot from USB. That's such an edge case, that I don't
think it's a problem to have a different partitioning setup. It's a last resort
help and you can be expected to manually setup the partitioning differently if you
don't like the universal one. For Server, you'll need to use Everything netinst if
a) both Server DVD and Server netinst have optical boot broken b) you can't boot from
USB or PXE (or some of those remote CDROM methods). Since Server people are more
technical, I hope setting up a custom layout (if the universal one doesn't fit) is not
such a big problem. The most likely use case here goes to KDE (or any of the
non-release-blocking spins). If your hardware can't boot KDE Live or the image has its
optical boot broken, your immediate next choice is Everything netinst. And in this case,
the universal partition layout is again better than e.g. if you booted Server netinst.
So after considering this, I'd still like to keep Everything netinst as the universal
fallback if the flavored images have their optical boot broken.