>
> I think support for configuring LVM at install time would be great.
It is already there. What does not work is configuring LVM with
diskdrake after installation (due to devfs naming confusion). Everything
you describe further on is already there if you configure as expert. You
say yourself it would be too messy for novices.
-andrej
> Though,
> through my experience, configuring LVM can be messy for the average
> novice,
> since you've got so many choices, ala pv's/vg's/lv's.
>
> The other idea would be to automate the whole thing. Once the
> partitioning
> stage is reached there would be "Allocate Disk Using LVM" / "Use
> traditional
> partitioning method" buttons that would be presented. The
"Allocate..."
> option would then make a suitable size /boot (maybe 20MB) and then
> allocate
> the rest of the disk as one big PV. Then they would be asked if they
> wanted
> to have all their file systems in one VG or multiple. Then they'd go
> about
> sizing their partitions for the different file systems and it would
create
> the VG's and LV's accordingly.
>
> Also, LVM allows you to use whole disks as physical volumes, ala
/dev/sdb,
> would that be something that would be allowed during the install?
> Obviously
> not on the boot disk, but on other disks, instead of creating
partitions,
> you could just hit a "create raw physical volume" button.
>
