Re: UI status braindump, part I

[Chris Lumens <clumens redhat com>]

> We still need this. Disk filtering is now part of the main storage
> flow/loop (ie: the storage spoke), as opposed to out in front like it
> was before. There's so much information [1] we need from the storage
> subsystem to display the storage spoke that we need a full devicetree to
> drive the spoke. This means that we populate the devicetree before
> device filtering happens. If the user has enough disks it could be quite
> slow getting the storage spoke ready initially, so we decided that at
> some arbitrary cutoff point we would force disk selection before
> populating the devicetree.

Argh, okay.

Well, I guess we'll need a mockup for this as well.  It will probably be
easy to write but might need to get pushed off to post-F18.  I think
we've got plenty to work on already.

- Chris