[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-installer 1/6] auto: add early answer file sanity check for RAID configurations

[Christoph Heiss]

>> ZFS actually lets one create RAIDZ{1,2,3} pools with 2, 3 and 4 disks,
>> respectively. While maybe not really _that_ practical for real-world
>> usecases (starting with the overhead), do we want to still allow it?
>
> I personally don't like putting too many constraints on what users can
> do. Even if not every setting is practical, I think the installer should
> allow them as long as they don't mean that the whole installation is
> going to crash halfway through,

Yep, definitely. I also like to err on the side of caution and rather
allow more than what might be technical feasible and/or allowed - latter
especially w.r.t. network settings.

I'd then just lower it to the actual allowed minimum as mentioned above,
doesn't hurt in any case :^)

> especially if manually creating pools
> like that would work. Maybe someone else has an opinion on this and can
> weigh in, though. In any case, thanks for the suggestion!