Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

>> UFS2+SoftUpdates works fine on properly configured UFS2 - and very fast.
> Yes, UFS2+SoftUpdates is very fast, however, in the case of a power
> loss or having to pull the plug on a locked up system, it has a
> noticeably higher chance of leaving you with an unbootable system than

can you please give an example how it may render unbootable system?

For what i know and ever used (ext2,ext3,reiserfs,rarely NTFS, UFS) 
UFS is the only one that never failed. It is always recoverable, with few 
lost files worst case.

I recommend you to read a paper about softupdates to understand why they 
are so good.

The only problem with millions of files may be long fsck. but not THAT 
long, and FreeBSD doesn't crash every day.


> if you were using Linux with ext3/ext4 or Windows with NTFS.

Especially your last example is really bad. It's quite common for Windows 
and NTFS to get completely messed.

>> Why you need sysinstall AT ALL?
> I am well capable of doing a textmode installation using console
> commands only, so _I_ don't. However, sysinstall is what the majority
> of new users are presented with when giving FreeBSD a try. A new user

A new user will never do anything mission critical on system he/she don't 
yet learned isn't it?

After learning sysinstall is no longer needed.

Anyway it's not bad to add this to sysinstall, i'm only suggesting you 
that it's probably low priority task to developers.