From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 18:20:25 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 3C0E1106566B for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:20:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49608FC16 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D8AE6643; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:20:23 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=sfYFHZmUUO50 Vy0CpTBiv8Z1myQ=; b=LEaF8QWo+DEEc2eG5BiWw+ochkbxcFLLCWJ0Ox5sLMW8 3GgJVuS+l9SdXxXO9ZUAjkDcJH9gj3qrMs7I+dcFkRVnfuURlsf/Dv466esup1fK OLuVPzk83omKDXJDvKmRpTLT45guZHNa7pl83vOxU2sHU/RLneVC5h84IiA9vd8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=bW3KK5 ArwTWQQa+nlnO0MVvFaYYzftTXphp1IVWI7thErvGPB+3P0CNW2I8nMByMzDa1Qs Y5oD/gDydAfErHUWJK5Mb9QFcyFfSRDSZCAIFT/O5D98bkB+w2WseH5Wvz9VPHhN 8O0XV6VV6ybssKcnyqIlJKL3HobjC9CH/5LR4= Received: from [192.168.1.68] (188-220-36-32.zone11.bethere.co.uk [188.220.36.32]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C88AE6642; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:20:23 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4EE0FFE2.2030504@cran.org.uk> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:20:18 +0000 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Bruno References: <1323208265.19452.15.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4EE08CA8.1060506@brockmann-consult.de> <1323359746.2710.7.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1323359746.2710.7.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , Peter Maloney Subject: Re: Dog Food 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, 08 Dec 2011 18:20:25 -0000 On 08/12/2011 15:55, Sean Bruno wrote: > BSDInstaller and its predecessor Sysinstall don't have any code to > create or destroy zfs(4) or geom(4) volumes. So, the amount of exposure > to real users is approaching 0 in comparison to the number of people who > really do use FreeBSD. > > I have my hands full with other projects at the moment, but I'm more > than happy to grant access to a two disk SATA server if someone wants to > enhance BSDInstall with zfs(4) or geom(4) volume management features. I don't know if it supports RAID, but the geom-aware rewrite of sade(4) supports zfs: http://butcher.heavennet.ru/sade/ Unfortunately it was never completed because of the difficulties of using ncurses/dialog. -- Bruce Cran