Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 21:32 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 04:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > "The installer must be able to create and install to software, hardware
> > or BIOS RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5 partitions"
> > 
> > Mo has already written up a test case for /boot on RAID which we can use
> > to test this in future.
> > 
> > Any thoughts, modifications, objections? Thanks!
> 
> You probably want to be clear that /boot is RAID-1 only (unless grub2
> has *really* come a long way).
> 
> Also, I see 3 possible scenarios:
> 
> 1. create a brand new software RAID-1 device and format it
> 2. format an existing software RAID-1 device
> 3. use an existing software RAID-1 device without formatting
> 
> I think it's worthwhile being specific about which are supported.

Yeah, that should be clarified:

"The installer must be able to create and install to software, hardware
or BIOS RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5 partitions. The /boot partition may
only be placed on a RAID-1 partition"

the second point is sort of valid, but it's tricky to really encapsulate
that in the criteria - at least I find it is :) any proposals? We do
support re-using existing RAID devices as long as it's actually
possible, which is kind of covered by the final criterion about 'any
workable partition layout'.
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