> Sounds pretty much in line with what I was looking for. However, I > think I would like to see it be a bit more complete than sysinstall in > the area of geom partition labeling (concat/strip/raid/encryption), and > perhaps also ZFS support. I realize that adds complexity a fair amount, > but one of the biggest areas of feature lack in sysinstall today is that > you are basically stuck with the original BSD partition structure and > UFS, whereas we expect increasing numbers of users to deploy ZFS. We > don't have boot support currently, but being able to set up /data as a > ZFS file system would be great. Today, people have to do an initial > install on, say, a small boot partition and then relabel/deal with the > rest of the disk, boot a live CD, or worse, discover they have to > repartition, which really fails to expose some of the excellent > ease-of-use, auto-configuration, etc, features that we otherwise have in > this area.
i suspect many folk installing zfs want a gmirrored boot partition, as i do. and setting zfs up is trivial next to doing a gmirrored boot on two small partitions on the two drives. but with the varied file system options and strategies we have, ufs, zfs, gmirror, crypted, ... i suspect that trying to get sysinstall to support us all is a path to having sysinstall need a dvd as opposed to a cd-rom. randy _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
