Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:34:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: "Peter J. Cherny" <peterc@luddite.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112291230280.94690@miami.exonetric.net> In-Reply-To: <4EFC1260.1060503@luddite.com.au> References: <4EFC1260.1060503@luddite.com.au>
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Peter J. Cherny wrote: > I believe removal of sysinstall exposes the community's blindness to a major > parts of it's future, ZFS root. > > Other than following arcane recipes, > the only way to create a system with ZFS root is by using Martin Matu?ka's > excellent mfsboot images. > > Where are the plans for making this functionality mainstream ? What's stopping this? lack of effort/time or consensus? I know it's a volunteer project and there's lots of resource constraints, but ZFS on root seems like such a no-brainer that I can only assume it's quite hard or nobody has quite decided what it should look like. - Mark
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