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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
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