Apropos Removal of sysinstall

[Mark Blackman]

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.
>
> 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.
>
> Where are the plans for making this functionality mainstream ?

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.

- Mark