Re: extend the --ignoredisk option

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:19 +0200, Joel Andres Granados wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > What's actually trying to be solved by adding this?
> 
> ignore swap.

Ignore it how?  Just don't use it during install?  Don't add it to the
fstab?  What's the use case.

> 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.

And what happens if someone puts in the uuid of a random partition?
What are the semantics of ignoring it -- do we not ever delete the
partition?  What happens if they try to use it with ondisk?  How does it
interact with zerombr?

ignoredisk is nice and simple -- we remove the disk from the ones we
look and and do anything to.  Ignoring just a partition feels far less
obvious to me

Jeremy