Calum Benson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 11:22 -0400, Dave Miner wrote:
>> Calum Benson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:11 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTW I installed nv_70 last night.  It did have a major problem--I was
>>>> not able to preserve the installed slices.  Perhaps someone can tell
>>>> me what I did wrong.
>>> I guess you used the new installer :)  It doesn't preserve slices and
>>> never will IIRC, see recent thread on caiman-discuss et al.
>>>
>> Calum, we never said that it never will, just that it doesn't right now 
>> because that wasn't a requirement for the target user.  Whether it will 
>> in the future is a decision yet to be made.
> 
> Ok, noted... thought I'd read that there wouldn't be any point when ZFS
> kicked in, but all that sort of stuff's way above my head :)
> 

We believe it'll be less useful with ZFS.  Whether "less == not" is very 
much up for discussion.

Dave
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