[xen-tools] Re: Seperate /home?

[Henning Sprang]

On 1/10/07, Terry Churchill <terry at sleek.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I couldn't find anything in the list archives regarding this, are
> there any plans to allow /home to be stored in a separate disk image/
> lvm? I thinking a default of no, but an option to pass something like
> --home (with the ability to change it's size as with the existing
> images) would be useful.

You could start with a /home, but quickly end up realizing that users
probably want much more sophisticated means of partitioning their hard
disks than having only /home

When you start having more disks/partitions than the two we have
currently, you don't want to export single partitions to the DomU, but
give it a whole block device, which is partitioned inside (like suse
and fedora do in their installer scripts).

xen-tools would create a partition tale in /dev/myvolgroup/mydisk,
then mount the partitions with kpartx and install into this.

If you (Steve? Anybody else?) are interested in working on
partitioning script and config scheme for auto-installers, some FAI
develoepers are working on this (to replace the old FAI disk config
script that does partitions wuite well, but without support for raid
and lvm currently). I think there could be built something that could
be used for both systems and adding some manpower could improve the
result.

Henning