https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439725
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Stefan Hundhammer changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Stefan Hundhammer 2008-10-29 07:48:54 MDT ---
For one thing, at this stage of the project (post-Beta3) it is neither possible
nor desirable to do any major design changes to something as important as the
partitioning workflow during installation. That would invalidate all
installation testing so far; it would throw us back to the early Alphas stage.
For another, it's never half as easy as you might think.
What are the requirements for a simple partitioner?
Flatten the complete hard disk and do an automated partitioning layout that
takes one Linux system into account? Sure, that's the most basic thing.
Allow users to keep an existing Windows on that machine alive, i.e., resize an
existing Windows partition? Sure, most PCs come with Windows preinstalled, and
very few users are ready to give up Windows completely.
Support a second internal hard disk? Sure.
Support hotplug USB or Firewire hard disks? Sure.
USB sticks? Sure, while we are at it.
Support mirroring to make use of that RAID controler that so many main boards
have? Yes, very desirable.
Enable users to add more hard disk space as they run out? Sure; you need to be
flexible these days, and hard disks are cheap; but reinstalling is time
consuming and thus not desirable. OK, so add support for tools like LVM and
EVMS.
Allow non-trivial scenarios to use all that together: Multiple disks with RAID
and LVM or EVMS? Sure; not supporting that would be to not do that final
logical step.
Uh - with all those requirements, you get exactly what we have now...
There is no such thing as a simplified approach to partitioning that does not
severely cut down on features that would hurt at least some users badly.
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