On 05/30/2017 12:38 PM, Arvin Schnell wrote:
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 09:00:02AM +0200, Josef Reidinger wrote:
Hi,
yesterday we are discussing a bit plans about merge storage-ng, new partitioner and such stuff into SLE15 and according to Factory first rule also to tumbleweed and it looks like we like to integrate it as early as possible to get some feedback, which is good.
On other hand, from user perspective it will look like that we reduce number of working features and do not provide anything new for them, so new storage would be regression for them. So I get idea that it would be great if we can add at least one new "free-cool-in" feature that make sense for SLE and also opensuse users. That is widely used and also easy to implement ( as we are already quite busy with development ) and after some googling I think that allowing to easy mount cloud storage in expert partitioner can be exactly that feature. For SLE we should support ceph ( so easy integration with SUSE storage ) and for opensuse it make sense to support at least one public cloud storage provider ( like google drive, AWS, Azure blob, rackspace, etc. which is the easiest to implement ). I think it is trending enough feature, it should not be hard to implement ( basically entry in fstab ), it has UI ( so easy to demonstrate ) and everybody knows it.
Why not provide features actually requested? E.g.
- root filesystem encryption without LVM
This almost works, just grub fails to install> - bcache support
Probing is already implemented.
Yes, the current guided setup is way more powerful than the old proposal settings. As Arvin said, root encryption has been requested many times and now it will be possible. A pretty good selling point. The so-called level 2 of the AutoYaST is also a completely new feature that could be very useful for many customers. There are also another improvements related with the proposal that we will be able to implement with very little work, like integrating the proposal with the expert partitioner, so you manually create/select your root partition and then let the proposal calculate the rest while respecting your hand-made decisions. Let's call it the hybrid mode ;-) Or maybe an advanced checkbox in the guided setup so you can "pretend" you are using UEFI even when is not true in the very same moment you are running the installation (yes, we also have reports from people that install in legacy mode to then switch to UEFI after installation). So there are some features we can trade in exchange for the missing ones (whatever they are). :-) Cheers -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org