From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 9 1:20:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B9A37B405 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:20:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.freebsd.org (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB99JSq51013; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:19:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.freebsd.org) To: Peter Wemm Cc: Matthew Dillon , Bernd Walter , Wilko Bulte , "David O'Brien" , Garance A Drosihn , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Wemm of "Sat, 08 Dec 2001 20:14:00 PST." <20011209041400.28C423808@overcee.netplex.com.au> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 01:19:28 -0800 Message-ID: <51010.1007889568@winston.freebsd.org> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Once we know what is going to be installed, we can make fairly realistic > extrapolations about how to size things. Nothing sucks more than having > sysinstall bomb out due to lack of space.Maybe we should be doing the > partition sizing *last* ? This is part of the design of libh, for exactly that reason. You define which filesystems you'd like and a set of *advisory* sizes at the beginning and then it auto-adjusts them once you've selected all the components to install. Libh, however, has package size information available up-front. Sysinstall does not. :-( - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message