On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:43:13 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 08/04/2012 10:49 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
you totally missed the discussions related to the removal of AIF a few weeks ago. More to the point, as a maintainer of a fairly complicated set of packages, he should be following important announcements rather than shooting of emails when he personally encounters the changes. Or at least looking at
David, you are fairly active on the mailing lists, and it's amusing that the front pages
Both points well taken. I do follow - to the greatest extent possible - the changes with arch. Even scanning the dev list, I completely glossed over the AIF removal, thus the email. After having completed the install without it, I can say, AIF is sorely missed.
The install guide that is currently in the wiki, does a good job, but it is extremely terse. The install can be done with the install wiki, but it takes an additional level of effort and Linux understanding than with AIF (and that had no training wheels). The current install is silent on 'swap'. I wanted a 500M swap, so I created on with cfdisk during install and added it to fstab. Simple issue, but it was things like that that AIF did that really helped cut down on the time/thought required for install.
It is actually a good thing that a user is given a chance to stop and think -- saves several reinstall attempts.
What is the current Arch policy for swap creation? Is it still recommended? If so, for what systems? (RAM <X, other criteria?) Let me know and I'll add it to the install wiki. Even if it is "Arch doesn't recommend swap creation", that should still be there for all users that historically have come to expect a swap.
There can be no policy since the amount of swap space depends on the mission the particular system is going to perform, although http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Ad... is still true. If you are really unsure, create a resizeable swap on top of LVM. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D