svn commit: r356758 - in head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall: . scripts

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Thu Jan 16 07:51:00 UTC 2020


16.01.2020 4:41, Ed Maste wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 16:10, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
>>
>> There are multiple scenarios there ZFS may be sub-optimal at least: small i386 virtual guests
>> or 32-bit only hardware like AMD Geode, or big amd64 SSD-only systems with bhyve and multiple guests
>> that need lots of memory and should not fight with ZFS for RAM etc.
> 
> That may well be the case, but our defaults should represent the
> configuration that's desirable to the largest set of users, and IMO
> that's ZFS in most cases today.
> 
> It might be that we should default to UFS on i386 and ZFS on amd64?

Also, size of the media should be considered as ZFS is not feasible for small media.
That is, ZFS has its minimum system requirements that should not be ignored by installer.



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