Re: Release criteria proposal: partitioning (alpha and beta)
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.