On 29/10/2007, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote: > I've been meaning to get up to speed on what choices are being made > for the user. I would like to review them and provide input to the > project. > > One example of an area that concerns me is the root > volume/filesystem/swap autolayout. > > RedHat allows choices of filesystem type for the root filesystem, as > well as allows configuring the LVM for filesystem layout. I understand > the thought is that ZFS will be used for everything, but there are > cases where one may not want to use ZFS. > > There are decisions like these that I feel we should provide the > option for the user to make. (As they can't be made post install). > Also, I have never ever been happy with the default filesystem and > disk layouts of any operating system installer. :) > > One thing we might want to include is installer "tracks" for various > uses. e.g server, desktop.... > > Thanks, > Brian > > P.S. - Sorry for the late request, I've been meaning to ask about this > since the summit preso.
There are plans to allow manual filesystem layout I believe. I'm fairly certain at the summit that Dave indicated that there were no plans to support other filesystems for now though the installer would be designed in such a way to allow others to add that support if they wished. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
