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[Devin Teske]

On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Devin Teske <dteske at vicor.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2011-Feb-22 02:50:54 -0800, Devin Teske <dteske at vicor.com> wrote:
>>>> That's the operative word here ("supports"). Lord help us when that
>>>> changes to "requires" (that is to say, if/when the FreeBSD kernel
>>>> becomes legacy-free with respect to supporting fdisk/disklabel
>>>> partitioned disks).
>>> 
>>> When that does come, it will probably be driven by BIOS and hardware
>>> vendors dropping support for MBR.  Current disks are at the upper
>>> limit of what MBR can be support (and that's after several revamps of
>>> MBR).  Since GPT already provides a superior feature set without MBR's
>>> limits, the next step will be to just drop MBR support.  And when it
>>> does come, FreeBSD needs to be ready with an installer that can cope
>>> with non-MBR disks.
> 
> While I love a good discussion (and there have been a number of good
> points for either side on here), should we agree to switch the default
> over to bsdinstall, leave sysinstall in (lumps or no lumps), then over
> the period of the next 2~3 major (that amounts to 4~6 years) releases,
> and retire sysinstall to the happy hunting grounds? sysinstall didn't
> take up that much space on the release media I thought, and it might
> be doable to map both sets of media so that sysinstall can work in
> harmony on bsdinstall's release media?
> 
> Preparing custom releases to use the sysinstall init_path isn't that
> bad, so it would at least give the legacy folks time to transition
> over while us guinea pigs burn in the new wax :)...
> 
> Sound good?

Love it. Absolutely love it. You are a uniter, sir (tips hat)!



> 
> Thanks!
> -Garrett

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