Re: Status of partman-crypto... and partman?
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 04:04:14PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> I'd like to inquire about the status of partman in general. LVM and
> RAID support are both not optimal and Anton Zinoviev said he'd try to
> integrate them better after sarge. What's the status of partman and
> are any major changes planned?
It is difficult to talk about plans and terms, but my plan is this:
1. Move the knowledge about the boot partitions (palo and powerpc)
outside of the recipies. That way for many of the architectures there
will be no need to duplicate the recipies, it will be easier to
enforce special requiremens such as special location of the partition
or the reuse of already existing boot partition.
Difficulty: medium
Requires changes in: partman-auto only
2. Now partman requests the list of the devices and partitions
directly from parted. By using of intermediary level it is possible
to avoid listing of the different LVM and RAID volumes as separate
devices.
Difficulty: ?
Requires changes: ?
3. Integrate the lvmcfg and mdcfg better with partman. This is
possible with the current partman but it is better to start only when
2 is ready.
Difficulty: medium
Requires changes: local for partman-md and partman-lvm
Drawback: partconf and partman will no more be able to share the same
configuration tools. Hence more code to support.
4. Implement the debconf_select and ask_user shel functions in C.
This would make some of the menues of partman much faster.
Difficulty: easy
Requires changes: local for partman-base
5. Provide better support for the graphical installer. Partman should
be able to detect when the frontend is graphical and use some special
codes to instruct the frontend appropriately.
Difficulty: the changes in partman are probably easy
Requires: only local changes; investigation what exactly we want
Anton Zinoviev
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