Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:22:57 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: david.robison@fisglobal.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One or Four? Message-ID: <201202172323.q1HNMvc3039898@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:05:23 PST." <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com>
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> We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > swap. I've been doing Unix 30+ years, so there's a tendency to respond "Multiple", 'cos seeing a single 1 partition on a system normaly meant it had been set up by someone clueless or lazy. Though not always, as there could very occasionaly be good reason for it. ... & ZFS now muddies the water. However whichever way ... > Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get a majority on hackers@ or current@ or arch@. Some answers one sees on questions@ are very good, but some are ... the other way. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/
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