On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 12:38:17AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
| >On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 03:24:30PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
| >| > Here's a diff that will make it default to the device carrying the
| >| > root filesystem. Result this:
| >|
| >| I disagree strongly with this. installboot is a disruptive operation,
| >| and you should specify the device.
| >
| >Fair enough. I thought it an easy diff that can't do harm (sane
| >defaults), but I see your point. Thanks for the feedback.
|
| You must be smoking something really strong.
Well .. I *am* Dutch, so... ;)
| It is never a good default for any program to open a raw partition and
| write something to it, based upon incomplete information.
|
| All the installboot uses in the tree already know what disk and
| partition to write to, and I can assure you it is not the root
| partition, it tends to be a vnd0. They are all explicit.
|
| You can be explicit also.
And I will be. My attempt at more laziness failed ;)
Paul
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