Storage Manager suggestions / feedback from a power user

[trapexit]

I'm sure as you work on RAID support some of this will be coming but wanted to provide some feedback as a power user. I realize that you will want to keep the default interface simple so perhaps consider this a suggestion for an "advanced" interface.

1. Generally I think it would be good to display things in terms of their logical classification. A tab for block devices (physical and logical), a tab for filesystems ('Storage' is somewhat confusing) and and maybe a tab for special things (like LVM, mergerfs, zfs, etc.)
2. Probably should include partitioning
3. Formatting options should probably exist both in 'Drive' (block devices) and 'Storage' (filesystems). Many people want to format the whole device (no MBR or GPT), sometimes 1 partition with MBR/GPT, and sometimes you need to reformat an existing partition/filesystem.
4. Ability to choose the filesystem use when formatting. The choice of vfat may allow it to be compatible across operating systems but really limits the usage of the storage.
5. Ability to change the label of a filesystem
6. Ability to change common mount options like those related to atime (and open field to add your own options)
7. For mergerfs: the ability to select options. Policy, caching options, etc. mergerfs has many options so I don't expect them all to be exposed directly but there are a few critical ones most users may want to modify.
8. Rather than forbidding access to the "Merge" tab when there aren't filesystems to use for that task it would be a better UX to allow the tab to be selected and warn that there are no filesystems available. However, since mergerfs can merge any paths, including those on the same filesystem, it would be nice to support arbitrary paths. And multiple mounts. Many people want to create a union of different sets of storage.