svn commit: r43506 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jan 14 15:40:14 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Jan 14 15:40:13 2014
New Revision: 43506
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43506

Log:
  - Add 2013Q4 report on ZFSBoot
  
  Submitted by:	Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com>

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 15:31:21 2014	(r43505)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 15:40:13 2014	(r43506)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 19 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 20 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1045,4 +1045,80 @@
       <p>This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='bin'>
+    <title>BSDInstall ZFSBoot</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Allan</given>
+	  <common>Jude</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>freebsd at allanjude.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Devin</given>
+	  <common>Teske</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>dteske at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Warren</given>
+	  <common>Block</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>wblock at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sysinstall" />
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE">Original Root-on-ZFS instuctions on the &os; Wiki</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>BSDInstall has been the default installation program since
+	&os; <tt>9.0-RELEASE</tt>.  However, it could not utilize
+	one of the best features of &os;, ZFS.</p>
+
+      <p>The ZFSBoot project started at EuroBSDCon 2013 and reached
+	stable status in December, just in time for
+	&os; <tt>10.0-RELEASE</tt>.  Currently, ZFSBoot implements
+	root-on-ZFS with 4k partition alignment, optional forced 4k
+	sectors, optional <tt>geli(8)</tt> full disk encryption, and
+	support for boot environments.</p>
+
+      <p>As part of ZFSBoot, BSDInstall itself also received a number of
+	updates, including enhanced debugging, more scriptability, a new
+	keymap selection menu, and a number of other small changes to
+	streamline the installation process.  The new keymap menu allows
+	the user to test the selected keymap before continuing, to
+	ensure it is the desired keymap.  Minor changes were made to the
+	network configuration dialogues to make the identification of
+	wireless interfaces easier.</p>
+
+      <p>A number of additional features are also planned.  Allow the
+	user to create additional datasets and adjust the properties on
+	all datasets in an interactive menu.  Also integrate BSDConfig
+	to allow users to install packages and various other
+	functionality that was previously provided by
+	<tt>sysinstall</tt>.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Interactive dataset editor.</task>
+      <task>Dataset property editor.</task>
+      <task>Consider using shell <tt>geom(4)</tt> parser.</task>
+      <task>BSDConfig integration.</task>
+      <task>UFS as a file system option, to allow users to create
+	encrypted UFS installs.</task>
+      <task>Optionally make the boot pool UFS or reside on USB
+	device(s).</task>
+      <task>Further streamline the installation process.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
