Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 08:04:37 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Ted Trask <ttrask01@yahoo.com>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] new edge snapshot and upcoming feature freeze
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:45:06 -0700 (PDT)
Ted Trask <ttrask01@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Will use of LVM be required? Will it be possible to get the exact
> same install that you used to get from 'setup-disk -r'?

Is there a need for that? I was thinking of it, but from script
programming perspective, its so much more complicated to work with
partitions than LVM. You can also resize/re-organize the partitions
later.

I could ofcourse keep the current code (which is one big bulk) in there
but it would be nice to 

The current plan is that 'setup-disk -r' and selecting 'root' will
create 2 partitions, 1 boot, 1 for lvm and store the root and swap (if
any) on lvm.

I wonder if we should have a simplified disk layout too, no LVM, no
swap, no /boot, just /. This could be useful for ssd setups.

Oh, btw, what I think would be cool would be if you could run
setup-disk with 2 or more disks and it would automatically do the raid
magic for you. For example: setup-disk /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

> 
> Ted
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
> To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
> Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 3:39:38 PM
> Subject: [alpine-devel] new edge snapshot and upcoming feature freeze
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have tagged a new edge snapshot, 110407. This includes apk-tools-2.1
> so things should works as normal when setting up new boxes, without
> any apk-tools upgrade adventures.
> 
> This snapshot also has a new version of setup-disk with support for
> data-only disk setups. You first get asked if you want use disk at
> all, and if so, which disk. Then you get asked how you would like to
> use it and you basically have 2 options:
> * data-only (hybrid) install
> * traditional native disk install
> 
> data-only disk will set up the disk with swap and one big /var using
> LVM. You can manually set swap size with -s option or disable it swap
> by setting the size to 0. If you run setup-disk with -r option, it
> will create a raid1 device under LVM with a single disk so you later
> can append a disk for redundancy.
> 
> Native disk install might have some issues at the moment and I intend
> to rewrite it to also use LVM.
> 
> setup-disk now uses ext4 by default.
> 
> Please test it and give feedback.
> 
> I think we will enter feature freeze mode tomorrow. From next week we
> will focus on bug fixing and setting up a 2.2-stable build box. If
> there still are any packages in testing that you need for 2.2 stable,
> well, too bad...
> 
> -nc
> 
> 
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