From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 22:48:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B231065670 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com) Received: from mail.intertainservices.com (mail.intertainservices.com [69.77.177.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590668FC0C for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.10.157] (unknown [172.16.10.157]) by mail.intertainservices.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D465B5643F for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:31:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1329431468.2054.17.camel@localhost> From: Mike Jakubik To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:31:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <092c01cceb40$2dc8f240$895ad6c0$@fisglobal.com> References: <4F355A5B.9080007@rewt.org.uk> <4F35743B.4020302@os2.kiev.ua> <4F37DBA3.7030304@cran.org.uk> <20120213195554.O46120@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <092c01cceb40$2dc8f240$895ad6c0$@fisglobal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-1.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-intertainservices-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-intertainservices-MailScanner-ID: D465B5643F.AFA72 X-intertainservices-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-intertainservices-MailScanner-From: mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: RE: New BSD Installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:48:19 -0000 On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 09:43 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > I'm with you on this one. I really don't like the single-"/" setup. > > > > while booting multiple systems on GPT also seems to require Linux tools. > > > > I don't know whether this move away from BSD traditional filesystem > > partitioning (/, /var, /usr etc) to Linux-style came down from Core On > > High or is just the prerogative of installer-writers? Jordan was both > > the latter and a big part of the former for many years, but I guess > > that's something that can be reverted if people feel to do so. > > > > Maybe a vote should be taken. There's about 12 votes in this office here alone > for putting the partition scheme back the way it was (Colin Percival had a great > formula for determining partition sizes). > You got my vote for the traditional partitioning scheme.