why are 2 /boots better than 1, and supersized?

[Nelson Strother]

  Somewhere circa f8t1 I noticed that LiveCD and rawhide installs were
attempting and usually succeeding in creating a new partition
labeled /boot1, instead of recognizing and adding the appropriate
bits in the existing /boot partition, as f7-vintage installs had done.
The pre-exiting /boot partition was created, labeled, and mounted at
/boot by f7.  I never quite had the time to collect everything for a
proper bug report.  Have you noticed this?

  More recently I see that the new / additional /boot1 partition is
being created with size 203.92 MiB.  Since I happened to notice in:

    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-October/msg00390.html

    anaconda-11.3.0.37-1
    --------------------
    * Mon Oct 08 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com> 11.3.0.37-1
      :
    - Make boot partitions 200 megs

I gather this is a design change, not a bug. How many folks are
setting installonly_limit (in /etc/yum.conf) to a value greater than
15?  Or what use is expected for the additional space?

  Might an explanation of these changes be appropriate in our Release Notes?

  http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/

Cheers,
Nelson