Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:11:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <200112102311.fBANBA849291@apollo.backplane.com> References: <44305.1008025253@winston.freebsd.org>
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: 4. Upon (Q)uiting or (W)riting at the label editor, all auto-created
: filesystems have their corresponding libdisk chunks actually
: allocated and the device names are now printed, (Q)uit also
: now invoking a new "Does everything look correct (Y/N)?"
: if auto-layout was used (if you only manually create stuff, it
: won't bother asking).
:
:I realize that this is something of a shift from the previous paradigm
:and am interested in knowing if anyone other than Matt hates it. :)
I don't hate it, but I wish you had done it before I invested all
sorts of time in this.
I don't think we need a 'Does everything look correct' requester.
If you haven't already, each profile needs to have a small paragraph
associated with it documenting what it is designed to do. Then as you
cycle through the 'P'rofiles this documentation appears in the window.
So the layman can cycle through the profiles until he gets the
'workstation' profile or the 'big whopping mail server' profile or
whatever it is he wants.
The buddy idea is kind of silly. The ability of one partition to inherit
the space freed up by another is based on whether the partition is
adjacent to the other, not whether it's the other's buddy.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
:Personally, I think it's a really cool way of cycling through
:different canned system profiles and seeing what other people
:recommended as defaults for that type of configuration. It also deals
:nicely with the issue of having multiple slices - you no longer have
:to go to a specific slice and "lay it out", the auto-layout feature
:taking advantage of all available (FreeBSD) slices without any special
:user intervention.
:
:- Jordan
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