On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
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?
See the BeleniX 0.6 release notes:
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=node/44
The 4th bullet from the top and the `Known Issues' section.
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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