Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:19:20 +0300 From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@wubethiopia.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years Message-ID: <48759BD8.20404@wubethiopia.com> In-Reply-To: <47A12EFB-2433-4E60-BE15-48E1BDD22238@mac.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> <20080708190407.GA68713@rink.nu> <47A12EFB-2433-4E60-BE15-48E1BDD22238@mac.com>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Rink Springer wrote: > >> 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. > > Yes, libdisk is bad. GEOM_PART has been designed > for use by installers. It can be interfaced > faily easily. See gpart(8) for example. Is there documentation for the geom_part API somewhere (I couldn't find any) or do I have to look at gpart(8) to figure out how to use it? Is it ok to just use gpart(8) instead of using the geom_part API? Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm @ FreeBSD.Org | AC7B 5672 2D11 F4D0 EBF8 5279 5359 2B82 7CD4 1F55 FreeBSD | http://www.freebsd.org
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