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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 2020 08:21:39 +1000
From:      Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
To:        Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ben Woods <woodsb02@freebsd.org>, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r356758 - in head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall: . scripts
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 3:15 pm, Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2020-01-16 13:32:07 (+1000), Conrad Meyer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 6:15 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 17:55, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> Very good point, defaulting to UFS for <4GB and ZFS for >=4GB sounds
> decent to me.
>
> I would support that.
>
> Ben: can you add a check for memory around the default selection?
>

As pointed out by dteske and koobs, I think having the bsdinstall menu
order change depending on resources would lead to confusion and would not
be aligned to POLA.

My opinion is that presenting the most common option as the first option
makes sense, but that users should still apply their brain and understand
the merits of the options when making a selection.

Perhaps we could simply include a message on that bsdinstall partitioning
mode selection screen that UFS is recommended on systems with < 4 Gb RAM?

Regards,
Ben
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