From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 10 15:11:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035CB37B41B; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:11:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBANBA849291; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:11:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112102311.fBANBA849291@apollo.backplane.com> To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Robert Watson , Peter Wemm , Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) References: <44305.1008025253@winston.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 : 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 :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message