Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall

On 29. Dec 2011, at 12:34 , Mark Blackman wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Peter J. Cherny wrote:
>> I believe removal of sysinstall exposes the community's blindness to =
a major parts of it's future, ZFS root.
>>=20
>> Other than following arcane recipes,
>> the only way to create a system with ZFS root is by using Martin =
Matu?ka's excellent mfsboot images.
>>=20
>> Where are the plans for making this functionality mainstream ?
>=20
> What's stopping this? lack of effort/time or consensus?
> I know it's a volunteer project and there's lots of resource =
constraints,
> but ZFS on root seems like such a no-brainer that I can only assume =
it's
> quite hard or nobody has quite decided what it should look like.

Not sure if it's a no-brianer but I seem to remember that there had been
patches prepared for bsdinstall which were never finished/committed.
I'll let that person follow-up himself on the state to where he got.

/bz

--=20
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         Stop bit received. Insert coin for new address family.=
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