From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Apr 23 22:25:01 2014
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC353533
 for <freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org>; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:25:01 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from c.mail.sonic.net (c.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.80])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
 (Client did not present a certificate)
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B319B106B
 for <freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org>; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:25:01 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from zeppelin.tachypleus.net
 (airbears2-136-152-142-25.AirBears2.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.142.25])
 (authenticated bits=0)
 by c.mail.sonic.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s3NMOupt008722
 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT);
 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:24:56 -0700
Message-ID: <53583DB8.1080905@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:24:56 -0700
From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64;
 rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net>, Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>,
 freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/164281: bsdinstall(8): please allow sysinstall as installer
 option
References: <201404151630.s3FGU0Zg026166@freefall.freebsd.org>
 <CAM9wqY8Bn9yQvMbpMdg1wcVhx5AGgK6rP1tkh9qccDhWZaU9Kw@mail.gmail.com>
 <012501cf5f1f$c5e7c740$51b755c0$@FreeBSD.org> <5358223B.1090408@gmail.com>
 <535827AC.3040503@allanjude.com> <53582CC4.2080808@freebsd.org>
 <53583D5C.5020506@pix.net>
In-Reply-To: <53583D5C.5020506@pix.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Sonic-ID: C;RB1dGTbL4xGyErilf7iULg== M;FGuPGTbL4xGyErilf7iULg==
X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17
Precedence: list
List-Id: Sysinstall Work <freebsd-sysinstall.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-sysinstall>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-sysinstall-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sysinstall/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-sysinstall-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sysinstall>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-sysinstall-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:25:01 -0000


On 04/23/14 15:23, Kurt Lidl wrote:
> On 4/23/14 5:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>
>> On 04/23/14 13:50, Allan Jude wrote:
>>
>>> I had big ideas for the ZFS part of the installer, to extend it further
>>> to allow multi-way mirrors and customizing the dataset layout.
>>
>> That's nice to hear. Hopefully you can integrate it into the regular
>> partition editor too. It's about to grow support for setting EFI systems
>> and duplicating that logic around would be unfortunate.
>
> Hmm, I've got some kinda ugly (but functional) support for doing
> creating zpools from the disk partitioning editor.  Anybody interested
> in the patches?
>
> -Kurt
>
>

Yes, please! Allan, maybe we could set up a branch for this?
-Nathan