Why not? It already mounts them to create and resize them. There’s not really any chance of anything going wrong if they’re mounted read-only. There’s also probably other ways to get the info without mounting them directly. For example, the kernel could be patched to return disk usage info to the host. There’s already patches to the linode kernel to do things like disable the updatedb cron job by removing the executable bit.[/quote]
Except for the swap image I use all "raw" images and create a reiserfs on them so as far as I know nothing else accesses them, but yes, if you use the linode-formatted images it must to create/resize the filesystem. I don’t know the details of how the updatedb thing works (e.g. whether it’s a kernel patch), but according to [url]http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1634[/url] it does mount the filesystem. At any rate, while it’s not really a big deal and by no means guarantees any security, I guess my preference would just be to avoid having another host mount my filesystems unless really necessary, and just to show me a graph of information I can readily get by typing "df" comes nowhere close to necessary imho.

Why not? It already mounts them to create and resize them. There’s not really any chance of anything going wrong if they’re mounted read-only. There’s also probably other ways to get the info without mounting them directly. For example, the kernel could be patched to return disk usage info to the host. There’s already patches to the linode kernel to do things like disable the updatedb cron job by removing the executable bit.

What is most useful to me is the status of things that can change regularly on their own without my intervention, like bandwith usage, and disk usage, etc. I think those types of things should be at the top.

There’s also something else that’s always bothered me about the disk usage percentage bar; I always have partitions created that fill the available space, and so this bar is always at 100%. Is it possible that the disk usage bar could show how much space is used in the actual filesystem? This is far more useful to me.

That page still has screenshots of the old panel.

Can it be made to be "pluggable" and reorderable, a la some ISP "start pages" where you select what content is shown (via a config screen with checkboxes) and what order different "blocks" of information are shown in (via an ordered list)? This seems like it would appease those who don’t like certain aspects of the new system.

–Xel

The dashboard is very cluttered and contains lots of things I hardly ever look at.

I don’t care about config profiles and disk images unless I’m changing them. They don’t need to be on the front page.

I don’t care about the job queue unless I’ve asked the host to do something. They don’t need to be on the front page. Especially if the host isn’t executing any jobs for me.

I don’t use the graphs at all.

I only use the stuff in the right hand column and now I have to scroll to see it.

I can’t access the old screen to do further comparisons.

What was there before was perfectly fine. I don’t see a reason why it was necessary to change it.

-Chris