On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 07:27:14 +0000 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@suse.com> wrote:
Hi,
the YaST team has the idea to make some storage tasks simpler to use by introducing storage wizards.
Attached are the first brain storming results. Feedback is wanted.
ciao Arvin
Hi, let me comments few parts of document: Creating RAID ------------- sounds reasonable. I just hope that e.g. for size, there is option like max so it use e.g. whole 4 disks for big data partition with some redundancy. Creating Bcache --------------- same here. Just maybe instead of cache fraction it would be better to have just size of cache including max option to use whole SSD disk. Storage Pools ------------- To be honest I do not like much this idea. It just make whole wizard more complex and I think goal should be to provide easy way to setup partitioning as you want and some additional concepts on top of it does not help. Helpers like all SSD or all rotational disk for e.g. bcache or raid makes sense, but having additional setup of some pools makes things a bit more complex. Abstraction ----------- I worry that this abstraction just confuse users. If user already knows "I want an 8 TiB XFS filesystem with RAID5 redundancy on 6 disks and snapshot support." then I think he also wants to select technology. Only part where it makes sense is autoyast, but still I think user wants to pick technology to use. Manual Space Maker ------------------ yes, for sure. For me current space maker configuration never works well and having simple way just to specify what I want delete sounds good for me. Control Sizes ------------- and also following, I am not sure what it means additional proposal parameters. Like adding it to guided setup? Then I would add there also manual space maker. Or something else? Josef -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org