----- "Thorsten van Lil" <tv...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am 22.02.2011 09:07, schrieb Buchan Milne: > > > The user will still *always* be able to decide what he wants. The > question is, what to do for users who don't know what to decide. IMHO, > for a first time user, it is *much* better to give them a "Use > available space, with growable filesystems" or similar, than a > statically partitioned, based on difficult-to-get-right heuristics. > > > > That's a good point. The step for partitioning is still the most > complex > one during the installation. There are really often questions and > discussions how to partition the hard disk.
Exactly. Dispensing with this requirement would make installation much easier, and still put the user in a position where they aren't setup for failure (all other solutions do, IMHO). > But, as a user who doesn't know anything about LVM, we should only > switch if the algorithm for LVM works really really stable and is easy With static partitions, the heuristics have to be good. For LVM, they just have to: -Ensure enough space for installation to succeed -Ensure a large percentage of the VG is not allocated (as growing is easier than shrinking) > to use. > It seems to me positive to switch to LVM for default but it's not > really > important, You obviously haven't seen how many users have questions about shrinking / from 50GB because they need more space for /home, or similar questions, on IRC. > so we don't should risk to much and take the time it needs, > > instead of forcing it to be finished for the next release, for > example. I listed the issues that I believe block switching to LVM by default. If they are fixed, I would think it would be an idea to launch the first stable release with LVM by default. Regards, Buchan