On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-04-18 11:39, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn >> <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>> I don't know about the current state of the Debian installer, but I know >>> back when I used Debian regularly and used the standard text based >>> installer, as long as I didn't format things from the UI, I could >>> provision >>> the filesystems however the hell I wanted manually and point the >>> installer >>> at the appropriate ones for each mount point, and it worked. >> >> >> No doubt this is a catch 22. I think it's reasonable for an installer >> to have an aging logic that allows it to be more conservative than the >> kernel's support for compat_ro_flags and incompat_flags, and refuse to >> install if it's not recently formatted. >> >> Now that I go look for this, I'm not sure what either flags offset >> 0x38 or compat_flags offset 0xac are about. >> >> Also, I didn't mention that Anaconda does require root fs to be in a >> new subvolume. It won't install to either subvolid 5, or any other >> existing subvolume. >> > I'm not certain about how Debian would handle it, but I think they'll assume > that the user knows what they're doing and just do what they say (which can > admittedly be a very dangerous assumption sometimes). > > Like I said in one of my earlier e-mails though, these kind of limitations > are part of why I switched to Gentoo, there's no GUI installer, but you can > put the system together however the hell you want (which is especially nice > with BTRFS, because none of the installers out there will let you use BTRFS > on top of LVM, which is useful for things like BTRFS raid1 on top of > DM-RAID0).
In a GUI context, the OS installer should be point and shoot to a volume. It shouldn't care how it was built. Partitioning is a separate thing. But in Linux land, these things get conflated, and makes them more complicated and buggy. The result is excessive resources maintaining and fixing them all the time. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
