Re: extend the --ignoredisk option

[Joel Andres Granados <jgranado redhat com>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 18:39 +0200, Joel Andres Granados wrote:
> > What do you guys think about including uuids in the --ignoredisk option?  For now 
> > I'm thinking of a patch that ignores swap devices based on uuid, but I think it 
> > could be extended to whatever uses uuid in anaconda.
> > This could be a staging point for a new --ignoreswap option or for redefining 
> > the --ignoredisk into --ignorestorage (a more general way of defining what needs 
> > to be ignored).  There are lots of pros and cons for each one.  Would like to 
> > hear what everyone thinks :)
>
> ignoredisk has been about disks and not partitions, so uuids don't
> entirely match up.  So having it in the same option seems a little bit
> wonky.

Yep, I agree.  just thought that having it all in one option would be tidy.


> What's actually trying to be solved by adding this?

ignore swap.

What do you think about having --ignoreuuid.  This would be really usefull as a way of ignoring whatever has a uuid.  It could be a fall back method. when the --ignoredisk cant be used.



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Joel Andres Granados
Red Hat / Brno, Czech Republic