On Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:52:37 pm Brett Glass wrote: > First thing I noticed, when running the new FreeBSD installer from > a memory stick image, is that disk partitioning was odd. It > abandoned standard UNIX parlance, calling what are traditionally > called "slices" partitions. It also diverged from past practice by > creating one big UFS filesystem rather than the usual separate > partitions for /, /tmp, /var, /usr. It then made a separate slice > (to use the traditional terminology) for swap, rather than > including it in the slice that contained the big file system. This > seemed odd; if the file system was being lumped together in one > place, why break out the swap to an entirely separate slice?
I can't speak to the "one-big-fs" bit (there was another thread long ago about that). However, as to the partitioning bit, bsdinstall is defaulting to using the newer GPT scheme instead of an MBR with a nested BSD label. It is simpler (only LBAs, no C/H/S dance), more extensible (partition table can be sized at creation time), supports larger disks (64-bit LBAs, which neither MBR nor the BSD label support), and is the x86 disk layout scheme of the future (EFI mandates GPT). It is actually more like a traditional BSD system that would have only had a BSD label (and no MBR) on the disk. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
