On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:02 AM Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 13:38 -0400, David Lehman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-08-23 at 12:16 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Hey folks!
> >
> > Hi Adam! Thanks for bringing this up again.
> >
> > > So...what should we do? Here are the options as I see 'em:
> > >
> > > 1. Keep supporting btrfs
> > > 2. Just modify the criterion with a btrfs exception, even if it's
> > > weird
> > > 3. Rewrite the criterion entirely
> > > 4. Keep btrfs support in the installer (and blivet-gui) but hide it
> > > as
> > > we used to - require a special boot argument for it to be visible
> > > 5. Drop btrfs support from the installer
> >
> > I like option 3 most. The current criteria have always seemed, to me,
> > too vague. I'd be happy to help hash out the details if/when it
> > happens.
>
> Thanks for the offer.
>
> So aside from the 'fun' of drafting very specific rules, my concern
> with #3 is we would then potentially be shipping an installer that
> presents things as roughly equal choices which are not in fact equally
> supported. You can pick 'btrfs' or 'ext4' from the dropdown...but one
> of those we commit to making sure is working, one of them we don't.
>
> That to me is concerning; in this scenario I'd prefer we indicate
> somehow, somewhere, that all the choices are not equally guaranteed to
> be reliable. WDYT?
>

Hi Adam,

I think that the best option is to add a new storage validation check that
will report a warning if a user wants to use a file system that is not
recommended by the installed product. The list of recommended file systems
would be provided by the Anaconda configuration files, so products and
variants could override it.

We already show warnings with recommendations, for example for too small
root partition or missing swap. The storage validation checks are run for
every type of partitioning, results are logged and warnings have to be
waved by the user in the interactive mode.

Vendy


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