en/handbook/bsdinstall: a list item of "freebsd-zfs" was put into wrong place

Ryusuke SUZUKI ryusuke at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 26 09:04:12 UTC 2012


From: Taras Korenko <ds at ukrhub.net>
Subject: Re: en/handbook/bsdinstall: a list item of "freebsd-zfs" was put into wrong place
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:50:54 +0300

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:51:12AM +0300, Taras Korenko wrote:
> >   Good day, folks.
> >
> >   It seems that addition of "freebsd-zfs" [1] to bsdinstall/chapter.xml
> > was put into wrong place because: 1) it conflicts with previous sentence,
> > which states 'A _standard_ FreeBSD GPT installation uses at least three
> > partitions', 2) now that list contains four items, 3) it is a bit weird
> > 'standard installation' if it creates partitions for both (UFS && ZFS)
> > filesystem types.
> >   Check lines #1387-1412 of en/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml at r39631.


  I totally agree with you.


>   Well, a possible restructurization might look as follows (as a general
> idea, extensive rewording is needed here):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> A standard FreeBSD GPT installation uses at least three partitions:
> Standard FreeBSD GPT Partitions
>   o freebsd-boot
>   o freebsd-ufs
>   o freebsd-swap
> More complex installation/partitioning scenarios might contain (including,
> but not limited to (TM)) any of the following gpt-partition-types:
>   o freebsd-zfs
>   o freebsd-an-exotic-gptpartitiontype-#1
>   o freebsd-an-exotic-gptpartitiontype-#N
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  I think it's good.

Regards,
    Ryusuke
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