Bug 1008303

Summary:	Selecting BtrFS snapshots sometimes doesn't preconfigure snapper
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Mindaugas Baranauskas <opensuse.lietuviu.kalba>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FEATURE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aschnell, igonzalezsosa
Version:	Leap 42.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
See Also:	https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008307
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Bug Blocks:	1008307
Attachments:	y2logs.tgz no snapper configuration exist Querying error after closing "no snapper configuration exist" error Warning about not enough space

Description Mindaugas Baranauskas 2016-11-03 12:12:05 UTC

It would be nice if during installation we select BtrFS (and marking option to create snapshoots for it), would preconfigure snapper to work with it via YaST.

Comment 1 Mindaugas Baranauskas 2016-11-03 12:16:30 UTC

Created attachment 700475 [details]
y2logs.tgz

For example, during openSUSE 42.2 RC2 installation I selected to use BtrFS with snapshoots, but YaST snapper failed to open because "no snapper configuration exist" error.

Comment 2 Mindaugas Baranauskas 2016-11-03 12:17:49 UTC

Created attachment 700477 [details]
no snapper configuration exist

Error message at opening YaST Snapper module

Comment 3 Mindaugas Baranauskas 2016-11-03 12:19:50 UTC

Created attachment 700479 [details]
Querying error after closing "no snapper configuration exist" error

Comment 4 Mindaugas Baranauskas 2016-11-04 19:00:25 UTC

Seems snapper is automatically preconfigured, if I select to install openSUSE into larger partition.

Comment 5 Mindaugas Baranauskas 2016-11-04 19:01:50 UTC

I think user should be notified if snapper can not be preconfigured (when it is supposed to be)

Comment 6 Imobach Gonzalez Sosa 2016-11-07 13:29:46 UTC

Created attachment 700920 [details]
Warning about not enough space

Comment 7 Imobach Gonzalez Sosa 2016-11-07 13:30:02 UTC

First of all, thanks for reporting.

If you check the proposal settings, you'll see that "Enable snapshots" if disabled when there's not enough space. If you check this option and you try to continue, you'll get a warning (I've attached a screenshot).

Having said that, it's not clear enough whether we should show an additional warning and where. I think that such a change should be also be discussed with UX experts.

So I'm going to close this bug report and, if you want us to change the behavior, just please create a FATE on https://fate.suse.com/ so we can evaluate such a requirement.

Thanks in advance!