From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 12:34:04 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA557106566C for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:34:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@exonetric.com) Received: from relay0.exonetric.net (relay0.exonetric.net [82.138.248.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3338FC08 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from miami.exonetric.net (miami.exonetric.net [82.138.248.154]) by relay0.exonetric.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B9557004; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:34:03 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:34:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Blackman X-X-Sender: mb@miami.exonetric.net To: "Peter J. Cherny" In-Reply-To: <4EFC1260.1060503@luddite.com.au> Message-ID: References: <4EFC1260.1060503@luddite.com.au> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:34:04 -0000 On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Peter J. Cherny wrote: > I believe removal of sysinstall exposes the community's blindness to a major > parts of it's future, ZFS root. > > Other than following arcane recipes, > the only way to create a system with ZFS root is by using Martin Matu?ka's > excellent mfsboot images. > > Where are the plans for making this functionality mainstream ? What's stopping this? lack of effort/time or consensus? I know it's a volunteer project and there's lots of resource constraints, but ZFS on root seems like such a no-brainer that I can only assume it's quite hard or nobody has quite decided what it should look like. - Mark