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Date:      Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:40:03 +0400
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller
Message-ID:  <162535688.20110915134003@serebryakov.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1sLbWySa9GhVqPqkq26aziCpLd9vOhtcSL-ggbVEv8rtA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, Kevin.
You wrote 15 =D3=C5=CE=D4=D1=C2=D2=D1 2011 =C7., 2:46:21:

>>> 7. On the partition editor screen the option <finish> should be the
>>> first in the list (ie; left most side) so if user accepts this config,
>>> hitting enter moves to next menu screen instead of having to tab over
>>> taking more time and effort.
>> =9AAnd again: there is no way to change block size/frag size/inode
>> =9Anumber in GUI. Only SU/SU+J/Version present in "Options" and here is
>> =9Ano way to change options after partition creation (adding to dialog)
>> =9Abut BEFORE real FS are created (changes are committed).
> First, I don't think you get SU+J (soft-updates and full FS journal), whi=
ch is
> a bad combination. I think you get SUJ (journal of metadata) which is
> a very different and is, I believe the preferred default setup.
  `+' character could be my mistake here.

> Of course, all of these are issues that exist with the old installer,
> but I think can be improved with the move to bsdinstall.
 As far as I remember, old installer (with "black-bacgrounded"
partiiton creation screen) allows to provide additional newfs
arguments... But I've used it very long time ago for last time...


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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>




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