Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

[Mike Makonnen]

Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Rink Springer wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:53:45PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
>>> Freddie Cash wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The tricky part will be getting the disk slicing, slice partitioning,
>>>> and filesystem formatting to work reliably, with all the power of
>>>> FreeBSD's GEOM modules, and ZFS.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, this is probably the easiest part (at least for UFS). The
>>> libdisk(3) library abstracts most of it out of the installer.
>>
>> ...except that libdisk(3) was supposed to be a temporary hack. I'd 
>> really
>> suggest that something cleaner is to be written; libdisk(3) really is
>> not the way to go. Have a look at the code and see for yourself.
>
> Yes, libdisk is bad. GEOM_PART has been designed
> for use by installers. It can be interfaced
> faily easily. See gpart(8) for example.

Is there documentation for the geom_part API somewhere (I couldn't find any)
or do I have to look at gpart(8) to figure out how to use it? Is it ok to
just use gpart(8) instead of using the geom_part API?

Cheers.

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