From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 12:43:24 2010 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 69B52106564A; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:43:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DD48FC1D; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:43:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CFF6246B65; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:43:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 01FC18A026; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:43:23 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=" Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:40:54 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <55861270658151@web135.yandex.ru> <86fx356ku1.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86fx356ku1.fsf@ds4.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201004090840.54701.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:43:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Bruce Cran , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger , Teske , Randi Harper , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Andrey V. Elsukov" , Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8) 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: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:43:24 -0000 On Friday 09 April 2010 5:23:18 am Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > Garrett Cooper writes: > > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav writes: > > > Garrett Cooper writes: > > > > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav writes: > > > > > [restored relevant context which was removed earlier in the threa= d] > > > > > ...which is exactly what I said - but in the sysinstall case, you= =20 may > > > > > want to ask some additional questions ("are you sure you want to= =20 proceed > > > > > without a swap partition?") or place some additional constraints= =20 (such > > > > > as "don't allow the user to mount something on top of /mnt or=20 /rescue"), > > > > > and sysinstall needs to know the outcome. > > > > If the user shoots him or herself in the foot, that's their own > > > > problem. > > > That kind of attitude is why people choose Linux over FreeBSD... > > Where do you draw the line though? /media, /libexec, /proc, /sys, etc? > > I think it's better to educate users than build in more complexity to > > the install application. >=20 > I draw the line at mounting something - anything - on top of directories > that contain files that are critical to sysinstall's operation. IIRC, > /mnt is where the installation CD is mounted. =46YI, the CD is mounted at /dist. sysinstall mounts the new filesystems i= n=20 /mnt and then chroots into /mnt before doing the actual install. =2D-=20 John Baldwin