On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Doug Barton wrote:

On 09/26/2011 15:38, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
This perception that ZFS is most of the future probably contributed to
the lack of strong opinions regarding the default UFS partition scheme.

Can we please stop saying that there were no contrary opinions stated? I

My apologies; my statements refer only to the filesystems working group of the BSDCan devsummit. I seem to recall that you couldn't make it to BSDCan ...

personally expressed a preference (call it strong if that helps) for
split partition scheme, as did several other people, all with worked
examples. Nathan chose to go "one big partition" in spite of that input.
Given that he was the one doing the work on the installer I personally
decided to take a step back and see how it played out. But let's not
pretend that this wasn't Nathan's decision.

Meanwhile, if based on feedback from early adopters we need to tweak the
layout, that's not life threatening. There is still time.

Yes, it was clearly Nathan's decision.  And there is still time.

-Ben Kaduk
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