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Subject: Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS
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> Is there any work going on to make sysinstall recognize and abe able
> to create and work with GJOURNAL and ZFS? In the days of 1,5-2,0
> terabyte harddrives, UFS2 + SoftUpdates simply doesn't cut it anymore,
UFS2+SoftUpdates works fine on properly configured UFS2 - and very fast.

Why you need sysinstall AT ALL?


use any CD/DVD distro like FreeSBIE, or even better - the one that 
loads itself to RAM and no longer needs HDD, or even FreeBSD already 
installed on Pendrive.

Boot it, then partition/newfs your disk(s) whatever you like, mount 
target, then use 
install.sh scripts from FreeBSD install CD to install system

this way

DESTDIR=/target ./install.sh

in every directory

then install bootblock and edit fstab, your system will boot.


Sysinstall is to help beginners, but do beginners need so complex setups?