26 Dec
2010
26 Dec
'10
11:30 p.m.
Hello,
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 02:00:16PM +0000, Andy Bennett wrote:
Without concocting a solution that is the worst of
both worlds, might I
propose something along the lines of:
Assumptions:
+ Most customers will want 1 Linux partition and 1 swap partition.
+ The customers that want more than that will know what they are doing:
+ How to apportion the space.
+ How to (work out how to) use LVM.
Most people never alter the disk configuration of their VPS at all
of course. Of those who do, they are for the most part expecting to
just grow root and not do anything fancy. It's a very small
percentage of customers who want something out of the ordinary.
I think you are right that it will be best to just do one partition
per block device. This will still leave it possible to resize
easily and it will make all the installers happy.
The only down sides are:
- We'll have to be much more careful when people ask for resizing
etc. because we'll have to check that a volume on the host is a
partitioned disk image or a filesystem or an LVM PV or whatever.
- Just as we were getting everyone to standardise on a single xvda
with a filesystem directly on it, this is going to change again,
which makes documentation a bit more complicated.
Ho hum, I think it's going to have to be done. Thanks for the
suggestions.
Cheers,
Andy
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