On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, John Baldwin wrote:
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 question of how to layout and split filesystems was discussed at the
filesystems working group of the devsummit at BSDCan this may.
(http://wiki.freebsd.org/201105DevSummit/FileSystems down to "Filesystem
Layout" near the bottom) Though "one big root" did not garner a huge
amount of support, neither were there particularly compelling arguments
against it (if I remember correctly). It's certainly easier to write an
autopartitioner for, so I don't really blame Nathan for having chosen it
initially.
-Ben Kaduk
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