On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 09:00:02AM +0200, Josef Reidinger wrote:
> 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.

Why not provide features actually requested? E.g.

- root filesystem encryption without LVM

  This almost works, just grub fails to install.

- bcache support

  Probing is already implemented.

ciao Arvin

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