Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 09/26/2011 15:38, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> This perception that ZFS is most of the future probably contributed to
>> the lack of strong opinions regarding the default UFS partition scheme.
>
> Can we please stop saying that there were no contrary opinions stated? I

My apologies; my statements refer only to the filesystems working group of 
the BSDCan devsummit.  I seem to recall that you couldn't make it to 
BSDCan ...

> personally expressed a preference (call it strong if that helps) for
> split partition scheme, as did several other people, all with worked
> examples. Nathan chose to go "one big partition" in spite of that input.
> Given that he was the one doing the work on the installer I personally
> decided to take a step back and see how it played out. But let's not
> pretend that this wasn't Nathan's decision.
>
> Meanwhile, if based on feedback from early adopters we need to tweak the
> layout, that's not life threatening. There is still time.

Yes, it was clearly Nathan's decision.  And there is still time.

-Ben Kaduk