On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 10:44:33 +0000
Arvin Schnell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 10:39:55AM +0200, josef Reidinger wrote:
> 
> > Storage Pools
> > -------------
> > 
> > To be honest I do not like much this idea. It just make whole wizard more 
> > complex and I think goal should be to provide easy way to setup 
> > partitioning as you want and some additional concepts on top of it does not 
> > help. Helpers like all SSD or all rotational disk for e.g. bcache or raid 
> > makes sense, but having additional setup of some pools makes things a bit 
> > more complex.  
> 
> But users who have e.g. USB HDDs purely for backup have to select
> all non USB HDDs every time they need to create a RAID. That
> seems tedious to me.

Well, how often you create RAID? I expect not so often, on other hand having 
more complex UI with new terms that makes it for everyone harder to use is big 
cons for me. So I prefer wizard that allows me to just select devices where I 
want raid without any additional logic with pools.

> 
> > Abstraction
> > -----------
> > 
> > I worry that this abstraction just confuse users. If user already knows "I 
> > want an 8 TiB XFS
> > filesystem with RAID5 redundancy on 6 disks and snapshot support." then I 
> > think he also wants to select technology. Only part where it makes sense is 
> > autoyast, but still I think user wants to pick technology to use.  
> 
> The user can once select the technology to use - apart of the
> fact that YaST so far only provides one technology.

I think it is SUSE strategy to support just one technology for given task, so I 
am not sure if this abstraction make sense when plan is to have just one 
supported implementation.

> 
> ciao Arvin
> 

Josef
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