From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 9 17:54:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1F337B417 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:54:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fBA1sJ927780; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:54:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:54:19 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200112100154.fBA1sJ927780@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jkh@winston.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-Reply-To: <3839.1007891857@winston.freebsd.org> References: Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <3839.1007891857@winston.freebsd.org> you write: >> Sigh. Look, the whole point of 'A'uto is to create a reasonable >> [rant deleted] > >All in your humble opinion, to be sure. I don't agree with it, >however, and enough other people clearly don't agree with it that When I first implemented an `A'uto option, it had one and only one point: to make it possible a bunch of computer scientists who were used to SunOS to install FreeBSD without PC-hardware-expert intervention. Not long after, Paul Traina came up with the scripting features which (IMHO) were a much better way of achieving that goal (since we were already distributing our own FreeBSD installation media, with the `confusing' options ripped out). For some reason, I cannot seem to find the original patch I wrote for this purpose. (I know it didn't go directly into sysinstall -- for one thing, it was not documented, not even on-screen, since I was a total curses loser at the time and didn't want to spend any more time on this particular hack.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message