Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:47:41 +0900 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years Message-ID: <486FDDED.20403@psg.com> In-Reply-To: <20080705161614.O19209@fledge.watson.org> References: <784966050807021123l267aa20en39eb513c12c90ad2@mail.gmail.com> <20080702235800.H47773@fledge.watson.org> <486C8700.5020100@lobraun.de> <20080703092511.T69986@fledge.watson.org> <486F8C57.9050908@wubethiopia.com> <20080705161614.O19209@fledge.watson.org>
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> Sounds pretty much in line with what I was looking for. However, I > think I would like to see it be a bit more complete than sysinstall in > the area of geom partition labeling (concat/strip/raid/encryption), and > perhaps also ZFS support. I realize that adds complexity a fair amount, > but one of the biggest areas of feature lack in sysinstall today is that > you are basically stuck with the original BSD partition structure and > UFS, whereas we expect increasing numbers of users to deploy ZFS. We > don't have boot support currently, but being able to set up /data as a > ZFS file system would be great. Today, people have to do an initial > install on, say, a small boot partition and then relabel/deal with the > rest of the disk, boot a live CD, or worse, discover they have to > repartition, which really fails to expose some of the excellent > ease-of-use, auto-configuration, etc, features that we otherwise have in > this area. i suspect many folk installing zfs want a gmirrored boot partition, as i do. and setting zfs up is trivial next to doing a gmirrored boot on two small partitions on the two drives. but with the varied file system options and strategies we have, ufs, zfs, gmirror, crypted, ... i suspect that trying to get sysinstall to support us all is a path to having sysinstall need a dvd as opposed to a cd-rom. randy
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