svn commit: r356758 - in head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall: . scripts
Philip Paeps
philip at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 16 05:08:00 UTC 2020
On 2020-01-16 04:57:28 (+1000), Oliver Pinter wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2020, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>> Author: woodsb02 (ports committer)
>> Date: Wed Jan 15 07:47:52 2020
>> New Revision: 356758
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/356758
>>
>> Log:
>> bsdinstall: Change "default" (first) Partitioning method to ZFS
>>
>> Reported by: Ruben Schade (during his talk at linux.conf.au)
>> Approved by: philip
>> Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23173
>
> What's the justification behind this change?
This came up during the Q&A after my ZFS talk at Linux.conf.au earlier
this week. Someone pointed out that if you install FreeBSD without
engaging your brain and "just press enter a few times", you'll get a UFS
system. In the vast majority of cases where you install FreeBSD like
that, you really actually want a ZFS system.
As Ed wrote elsewhere in this thread, the installer "defaults" should be
what most people actually want.
Note that Ben's patch doesn't actually make it any more difficult to get
a UFS system if anyone wants that. The only thing it does is move ZFS
to the top of the list of options so "enter enter enter" gets you a ZFS
system instead of a UFS system.
> Plus I miss from here the relontes tag.
I'm not sure if this merits a release notes entry but ... sure.
There is not actually a functional change here. It's just a defaults
change.
Philip
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