From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 19:23:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C050106566B; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:23:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@rink.nu) Received: from mx1.rink.nu (gloom.rink.nu [213.34.49.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513BD8FC1F; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:23:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@rink.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B446D41E; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:04:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rink.nu Received: from mx1.rink.nu ([213.34.49.2]) by localhost (gloom.rink.nu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WKCCkw5yaY-q; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:04:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 86AAB6D41B; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:04:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:04:07 +0200 From: Rink Springer To: Mike Makonnen Message-ID: <20080708190407.GA68713@rink.nu> References: <784966050807021123l267aa20en39eb513c12c90ad2@mail.gmail.com> <20080702235800.H47773@fledge.watson.org> <486C8700.5020100@lobraun.de> <20080703092511.T69986@fledge.watson.org> <486F8C57.9050908@wubethiopia.com> <48737F79.6070401@wubethiopia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48737F79.6070401@wubethiopia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Freddie Cash Subject: Re: Re: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:23:40 -0000 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. Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win." - Fox Mulder