Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:04:07 +0200 From: Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Makonnen <mtm@wubethiopia.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years Message-ID: <20080708190407.GA68713@rink.nu> In-Reply-To: <48737F79.6070401@wubethiopia.com> References: <784966050807021123l267aa20en39eb513c12c90ad2@mail.gmail.com> <20080702235800.H47773@fledge.watson.org> <486C8700.5020100@lobraun.de> <20080703092511.T69986@fledge.watson.org> <486F8C57.9050908@wubethiopia.com> <b269bc570807071155u364225dfi298be797b728dca4@mail.gmail.com> <48737F79.6070401@wubethiopia.com>
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:53:45PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > > > The tricky part will be getting the disk slicing, slice partitioning, > > and filesystem formatting to work reliably, with all the power of > > FreeBSD's GEOM modules, and ZFS. > > > > Actually, this is probably the easiest part (at least for UFS). The > libdisk(3) library abstracts most of it out of the installer. ...except that libdisk(3) was supposed to be a temporary hack. I'd really suggest that something cleaner is to be written; libdisk(3) really is not the way to go. Have a look at the code and see for yourself. Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win." - Fox Mulder
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