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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:23:22 +0000
From:      "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>
Cc:        Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager@gmail.com>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI
Message-ID:  <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC4B002@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com>
In-Reply-To: <52557ED1.5020008@allanjude.com>
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On Oct 9, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Allan Jude wrote:

> On 2013-10-09 03:22, Matthias Gamsjager wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> tried 10-8 iso in Virtualbox but after reboot I was looking at a
>> bootloader with a nice '-' but nothing more.=20
>> post setup 'gpart list' showed no entries at all.
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>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com
>> <mailto:freebsd@allanjude.com>> wrote:
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>>    On 2013-10-07 15:59, Allan Jude wrote:
>>> Devin Teske and I have been working on a big patch to bsdinstall to
>>> implement installing on a ZFS pool. It supports both GPT and
>>    MBR, the 4k
>>> sector gnop trick, and optional GELI encryption. We would like
>>    to commit
>>> this in time for 10.0-BETA1 so it needs some testing to work out any
>>> obvious bugs before we send it off to re@ to get it committed.
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>>> It includes a single configuration menu that allows you to
>>    select all of
>>> the required details, including which drives to use (gets
>>    details from
>>> camcontrol, also includes an inspection utility that presents the
>>> detailed output of camcontrol inquiry/identify, and gpart show),
>>    what
>>> ZFS RAID level to use (taking in to consideration the selected
>>    number of
>>> drives), GPT/mbr, 4k YES/no, GELI yes/NO, pool name, etc.
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>>> Additional, it includes some other changes to bsdinstall:
>>> 1. Change the default to the 'non-standard keyboard mapping'
>>    prompt to no
>>> 2. Replace the 3 separate dialogs to configure an ipv4 address
>>    with just 1
>>> 3. Remove the dialog asking if you wish to enable crash dumps, this
>>> feature has been combined into the regular 'services to enable'
>>    dialog
>>> and enabled by default
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>>> You can browse the patches here:
>>> http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdinstall_zfs/
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>>> I've built a bootonly.iso (10.0-ALPHA4) to make testing easier,
>>> available compressed (48 MB) or uncompressed (211 MB):
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>>> http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/zfsbootonly_2013-10-06.iso.xz
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>>> http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/zfsbootonly_2013-10-06.iso
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>>> We look forward to your feedback
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>>    We've made more improvements, including corporating most all of the
>>    feedback we've gotten so far
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>>    Outstanding items:
>>    1. Apply the changes to ipv6 config the way we did ipv4
>>    2. improve disk identification (model info and serial # instead of one
>>    or the other)
>>    3. Include a helpful message before the GELI step where you have to
>>    enter your password many times, the user will be less confused if
>>    it is
>>    explained why they have to enter their password 3 * number of
>>    disks times
>>    4. Validate vdev type choice inside the vdev type menu, and warn the
>>    user if they have made an invalid selection, so they can add more
>>    disks
>>    or chance their selection, without having to try to start the
>>    installation first
>>    5. Whatever else you guys find wrong tonight
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>>    I generated new test images, and attached the patch (which got REALLY
>>    big when Devin Teske decided to fix "all of the things":
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>>    http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/zfsbootonly.2013-10-08.iso.xz
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>>    http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/zfsbootonly.2013-10-08.iso
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>>    --
>>    Allan Jude
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> This was a variable scoping error made by Devin when he refactored some
> of the code into a subroutine. I have fixed it
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Ouch and apologies.

It was too hard to see at 2AM after starting-in on a deeper pathos to the k=
eymap
patches (which I'm still working on). Allan alerted me to the issue but whe=
n I started
digging-in, I realized much deeper changes were required. And then I passed=
 out
around 2:30AM (keyboard-faceplant).
--=20
Devin

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