On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 10:44:33 +0000 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@suse.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 10:39:55AM +0200, josef Reidinger wrote:
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.
But users who have e.g. USB HDDs purely for backup have to select all non USB HDDs every time they need to create a RAID. That seems tedious to me.
Well, how often you create RAID? I expect not so often, on other hand having more complex UI with new terms that makes it for everyone harder to use is big cons for me. So I prefer wizard that allows me to just select devices where I want raid without any additional logic with pools.
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.
The user can once select the technology to use - apart of the fact that YaST so far only provides one technology.
I think it is SUSE strategy to support just one technology for given task, so I am not sure if this abstraction make sense when plan is to have just one supported implementation.
ciao Arvin
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