Re: Summary of shared EFI system partition discussion

On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 10:39 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/14/2015 10:12 AM, David Lehman wrote:
> > Is the ESP really so special? What about other shared filesystems?
> > One
> > could certainly have multiple linux installations that all use the
> > same
> > /home or /tunes or whatever. Should we schedule removal the first
> > time
> > the user asks us to remove one of these, or should we silently only
> > remove it from the specified root in the UI until/unless they've
> > removed it from the last root it's part of? I know the windows case
> > is
> > different in that the ESP is still shared even when the only root
> > is
> > "Unknown", but the rest seems to overlap.
> 
> I think ESP is special in that, if you have multiboot with shared 
> filesystems that aren't ESP, you probably put that in place yourself
> so 
> you should be well aware of your own setup. But Anaconda by default 
> shares any existing ESPs if you don't do custom install, so we do
> that 
> for you and you don't opt in (if that makes sense.)
> 
> I also think other shared filesystems are more likely to be data. We
> do 
> separate data partitions from system ones in the list...
> 
> It would be *nice* to have some kind of affordance around shared data
> partitions if we knew they were shared, but I don't know that we do?

I think we've established pretty firmly that users cannot be expected
to know (or think about) their setups when clicking buttons during
installation.

David

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