Hi, yesterday we are discussing a bit plans about merge storage-ng, new partitioner and such stuff into SLE15 and according to Factory first rule also to tumbleweed and it looks like we like to integrate it as early as possible to get some feedback, which is good.
On other hand, from user perspective it will look like that we reduce number of working features and do not provide anything new for them, so new storage would be regression for them. So I get idea that it would be great if we can add at least one new "free-cool-in" feature that make sense for SLE and also opensuse users. That is widely used and also easy to implement ( as we are already quite busy with development ) and after some googling I think that allowing to easy mount cloud storage in expert partitioner can be exactly that feature. For SLE we should support ceph ( so easy integration with SUSE storage ) and for opensuse it make sense to support at least one public cloud storage provider ( like google drive, AWS, Azure blob, rackspace, etc. which is the easiest to implement ). I think it is trending enough feature, it should not be hard to implement ( basically entry in fstab ), it has UI ( so easy to demonstrate ) and everybody knows it. So here is few my questions: - Do you think it makes sense? - Does it make sense to add support for it also in libstorage-ng? And if so, how hard it will be? - Does it make sense to also allow non-root access to partitioner via pam-mount configuration, so each user can mount his own google drive? In general my estimation how fast I can do this feature without libstorage-ng and with augeas for fstab is one week of work. Josef -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
