Dave Miner wrote:
Ian Murdock wrote:
One big win if we can do everything in a ZFS pool is that we don't have
to worry about partitioning. Big simplification there.
Presumably, all "partitioning" becomes is resizing existing
partitions to make room for the Solaris (ZFS) partition,
and I see parted has been ported to Solaris, so we
could presumably use libparted in the Solaris installer?
If you want non-destructive resizing, then you need something like
libparted, though its support for doing so with NTFS left a great deal
to be desired when we evaluated it a year ago. Integrating it into an
installer is possible, though not something we have plans to fund at the
moment. I'm told that Vista can shrink itself, and since most Linux
users already have parted, is it acceptable to ask the user to perform
that task first in the native environment of the OS they already have
installed? A conservative point of view about data preservation would
seem to argue for that (and is why we've declined to make that move with
Solaris so far), but perhaps we don't want to be so conservative with
Indiana, and admittedly the user expectations here may be that we
should. My personal belief is that most users don't have any
appreciation for how risky it is to have Linux or OpenSolaris (or any
OS) attempting to reconfigure the storage of some alien OS, nor do those
same users likely have the system backups they should.
Agree that integrating resizing into the installer is not a priority.
Also agree that we should recommend users do their resizing in the OS
they're already running.
It would be nice if we could integrate *something* into the Live CD
though, assuming we go that route, more as a convenience than anything
else. Telling users they have to find a Linux CD to do
resizing if their native OS can't do it isn't particularly appealing..
I see that GParted is in Belenix.. How functional/reliable is it?
If it works well, could we simply integrate that into the Live CD
for people who want/need to resize before installing?
-ian
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