Re: Blocker status of RHBZ #1033778 (shrinking unknown volumes)

Adam Williamson <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:36:56 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.anaconda.devel
Organization Red Hat
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On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 10:22 -0500, David Lehman wrote:
> 
> > So basically it's another shoot-yourself-in-the-foot conundrum, with
> > the standard choices? Leave the safety off, put a dumbass "Are you
> > sure
> > you want to do that?" message in front of it, or disallow it and
> > annoy
> > some partition pokemon with an implausible use case for it?
> > 
> > Well hey, life sucks. I *think* my preference, if you asked my
> > opinion,
> > would be to disallow it and just say "if it's an empty partition you
> > really want to make smaller, just do it in another tool or delete it
> > and recreate it smaller". But if you think the balance here should be
> > in favour of letting people shoot themselves in the foot, I'm not
> > gonna
> > argue it, and we'll just have to rewrite the criterion somehow.

> I don't have a strong preference as to which corner-case we turn our
> back on here. I do think that if this qualifies as a blocker under the
> current criteria a rewrite/edit is definitely in order.

OK. We have a blocker review meeting coming up in 90 minutes or so; I
will propose that we adjust the criterion wording to apply only to
known filesystems.
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