[Base] Fedora Base Design Working Group (2014-02-21) meeting minutes and logs

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 19:08:15 -0700,
>  Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The idea of what Anaconda can do to create powerful storage stacks with open source software has significant merit. But it's in the wrong place. It's an anchor on the installer, and can only be leveraged during an install of RHEL, CentOS or Fedora.
> 
> What would you have people do instead? For example run a live image to do the partitioning, raid, lvm, dmcrypt, and file system setup before doing the install? Even then, you need some way to tell the installer which directories go on which file systems for the install.

I'm mainly suggesting a decoupling of all of this effort from an installation only context, so that it can be used to create and modify storage stacks without installing an OS. I don't particularly care how it manifests - separate app, or a spoke within the current app. Communicating the layout can be done with a fstab-like metadata file. If there's no inclination to do this for a much broader use case, then why wedge so much capability and effort into a narrow installer-only use case? Bootable raid6 and raid4??

Chris Murphy