Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:49:12 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, Teske <dteske@vicor.com>, Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8) Message-ID: <201004080849.12151.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <867hoi8gbl.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <55861270658151@web135.yandex.ru> <20100408103809.13496s9i6ny03ocg@webmail.leidinger.net> <867hoi8gbl.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Thursday 08 April 2010 5:05:34 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes: > > Please consider using SVN instead. A lot more users will be able to > > check out from there. > > We don't grant non-committers access to the Subversion repo. > > > It looks like other people had a look at sysinstall, not at sade. As > > sysinstall is supposed to be used at installation time, and the intent > > for sade was to offer the functionality (or more) of the part of > > sysinstall which is useful after installation (and to prevent admins > > from using sysinstall after the installation to prevent some unwanted > > foot-shooting), I do not think that we need to think about a strong > > lock between sysinstall and sade. > > Yes we do. Otherwise we'll just end up back where we are today, where > if you want anything more complicated than a single-disk install you > have to drop into the fixit shell and do it manually before running the > installation procedure. Anythig that sade can do, we want sysinstall to > do as well, and we don't want to implement everything twice. > > My suggestion is to add a "sysinstall mode" to sade where it operates > under certain (minor) constraints and reports what it did in a format > that sysinstall can parse, so sysinstall can just fork-exec sade instead > of duplicating the code. Actually, I would rather have sysinstall just invoke sade to do the disk related stuff. Also, I think sysinstall should allow for a "back-door" mode where a user can setup partitions however they like and mount them at /mnt and then let sysinstall use the setup the user created. This will allow users to setup more complex setups that sysinstall/sade do not currently support and allow sade to focus on simpler, common usage cases w/o having to handle painful edge cases. It would also allow for new modules to be added to sade over time w/o requiring it to support every possible disk layout from the beginning. -- John Baldwin
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