From: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installation
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:35:14 +0100 [thread overview]
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2018-01-17 16:47 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:
> >
> >> I believe, that we could make a powerful extension to guixsd if we
> could do
> >> an installation from an installation description.
> >>
> >> I think this installation description should look like the
> operating-system description we
> >> already have.
> >
> > In what way would it defer? :-)
> >
> > ‘operating-system’ *is* an “installation description.”
>
> I guess it would differ from what we have currently in that it would
> also specify partitioning information, which is not handled by
> “operating-system”.
>
> Does it make sense to extend “operating-system” such that disk
> partitioning information could be included and (*holds breath*) acted
> upon automatically?
>
> Acting on partitioning info is a little scary because it can easily lead
> to data loss upon reconfiguration. Small bugs could lead to very big
> problems, so maybe this should not be default behaviour.
>
>
Yes, partitioning information is one of the primary missing point for me.
I don't think that it should be default behaviour either. Another thing that
could be useful is secret provisioning in some form.
I am thinking of this as a base of a bare-metal provisioning framework.
We could get some ideas, what else the other tools are doing.
I guess I've also read something about guix deploy. What is the current
status of that?
One more thing: lvm really seems not to map well onto the current set of
storage primitives.
I guess that lvm support could be added more cleanly with this kind of
mapping:
Partition -> PV
Mapped device of PVs -> volume group
Partition of volume group -> LV
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 12:43 Installation Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-17 14:35 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17 15:47 ` Installation Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-17 19:35 ` Gábor Boskovits [this message]
2018-01-18 10:27 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 10:29 ` Installation Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 12:05 ` Installation ng0
2018-01-18 15:11 ` Installation Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-18 16:41 ` Installation myglc2
2018-01-22 4:38 ` Installation Chris Marusich
2018-01-22 8:29 ` Installation Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-18 2:29 ` Installation George myglc2 Clemmer
2018-01-18 9:29 ` Drive identifiers Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 9:39 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 10:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-18 11:01 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 14:35 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-18 20:10 ` myglc2
2018-01-19 8:27 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 0:43 ` myglc2
2018-01-19 7:22 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-19 16:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-24 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
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