Re: Automatic partition setup in partman-{lvm,md,crypto}

2009-07-30 Thread Max Vozeler
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 07:47:14PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Otavio told me that you and he and Joey had agreed it would be a good idea to upload what we have in trunk now and refine from there. Your patches look basically along the right lines - I'll review them when I have a chance ... I

Re: Automatic partition setup in partman-{lvm,md,crypto}

2009-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 01:47:52PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Talking through this with Max Vozeler identified several problems that I'd still like to fix: * There are several common chunks of code that should be moved into

Re: Automatic partition setup in partman-{lvm,md,crypto}

2009-07-26 Thread Max Vozeler
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Talking through this with Max Vozeler identified several problems that I'd still like to fix: * There are several common chunks of code that should be moved into partman-base. I think I'll be working on some of that today.

Re: Automatic partition setup in partman-{lvm,md,crypto}

2009-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I was showing this to a few people at DebConf and people seemed generally in favour of the UI changes, so I thought I'd post it for wider comment here. Max tested this and found a few bugs, which we fixed between us. He suggested

Automatic partition setup in partman-{lvm,md,crypto}

2009-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
I was showing this to a few people at DebConf and people seemed generally in favour of the UI changes, so I thought I'd post it for wider comment here. The process of setting up complex block devices (LVM, RAID, crypto) in partman is currently rather tedious. You have to separately edit each