Hello list Let me preface this by saying that I do not have coding knowledge/experience, but I am willing to donate my time to help test things if somebody is already working on this. Hopefully, this will prevent most of the potential "feel free to submit patches" responses :)
Is there any work going on to make sysinstall recognize and abe able to create and work with GJOURNAL and ZFS? In the days of 1,5-2,0 terabyte harddrives, UFS2 + SoftUpdates simply doesn't cut it anymore, but since this is the only thing you can do from within sysinstall, it is what the vast majority of people giving FreeBSD a try are going to end up with. If you tell a Windows or a Linux user that having a sudden power loss or having to pull the plug on a locked system can result in an unbootable FreeBSD system, a very large portion of them is going to run away screaming, never giving FreeBSD a second look. And yes, I know that the same things can theoretically render Windows or Linux unbootable, but let's be honest here, it is a LOT more likely to happen to an UFS2 + SoftUpdates system than NTFS or EXT3/EXT4. This calls for more robust default options/settings to be presented by the sysinstall to the new user. GJOURNAL and ZFS present themselves as the most sensible options in this case. Sincerely, - Dan Naumov _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
