Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
>>I think support for configuring LVM at install time would be great.
>>
and what about striped LVM ( creating, stripesize),who asks you for the
name of the LV, readahead, wich PV's to use
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>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.
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>-andrej
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>>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..."
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>>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,
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>>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.
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