GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 751223
[RFE] Allow multiple hard disks
Last modified: 2018-01-11 10:24:02 UTC
For testing purposes in different server/application scenarios it is useful to provide several storage volumes. Right now the only way to do this from the UI is by redirecting a USB volume which is sub-optimal.
Can you elaborate on the use case?
Sure, let me give you two examples: Say I'm trying to test a NAS operating system (say FreeNAS), FreeNAS actually mandates that the OS and the storage physical volumes should be different. If I want to test it before deploying it I'd need a VM with several disks on it so that I can check how it behaves if, for example, one of the mirrored volumes goes away. I can think of several other cases where this is really useful, like devops who want to test storage management infrastructure software for their data backends (like testing their ZFS, Btrfs, or LVM based setups).
After creating this wireframe I wonder if the use case is relevant enough to make the single drive approach a little less straight forward... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/boxes/wires/newbox-assistant.png
Created attachment 305958 [details] current devices configuration pane
I don't think that adding/removing devices on the setup stage has to be mandatory. I completely agree that hurting the default experience to support this is probably not a good idea. However, given the room that there is in the current devices pane of the configuration dialog, I can't see any good reason not to use all that available space to do something nice about this.
(In reply to Alberto Ruiz from comment #5) > I don't think that adding/removing devices on the setup stage has to be > mandatory. With devices I really meant storage volumes.
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