Hello, Nathan. You wrote 21 августа 2011 г., 20:53:22: > GPT is bootable on all x86 systems, with either EFI or BIOS, and is now Ok, I was not sure here. >> (5) Partition creation dialog has button "Options", but modify dialog >> doesn't. > This is by design. The installer can't run tunefs, nor is there even > something like tunefs for some of the supported partition types > (msdosfs, for instance). There is no FSes created at this stage. As far as I understand, now creteion of BSD partitions inside (MBR/GPT) slice is combined with creation of FSes on these partitions. And when I create "ada0s1a" with type "Freebsd-ufs" and want to turn soft-updates on it, I cannot without partition re-creation because "Modify" doesn't have "Options" button. And "newfs" will be called only on submit, much later! >> (7) Partition editor doesn't seen existing filesystems and doesn't >> warn about parititoning disks with existing filesystems. I have two >> (virtual) disks common for all my VMs -- with sources (one common disk >> per version) and with some scratch space (common for every my VM), >> FSes are created without any partitions or slices, directly on device >> nodes (ada1 and ada2). PArtition Editor doesn't have any sign or >> warning, that ada1 and ada2 contains valid FreeBSD filesystems. > I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. It lists all existing > partitions on all existing disks and warns you before replacing them > with new ones. It has no way of knowing (from GEOM) about UFS file > systems directly on disks, nor do any of our other system tools. GEOM_LABEL? ;-) These UFS2 file systems has valid labels :) > Why would you expect it there? It is perfectly possible to mount Because here is no obvious way to turn on/off softupdates and new su-based journaling when partitions are created. And no way to turn these options on/off with "Modify", either, even BEFORE filesyystems are really created. Also, such options to newfs as block sizes, etc. > existing file systems from the installer -- they just have to live on > partitions. I'm not sure whether we want to support the case of the > totally unpartitioned disk in the installer, anyway. Old installer had support for DD (Dangerously Dedicated) disks :) >> (9) Lot of LORs on slice/partition creation and newfs. > Yes. These are not an installer problem, but should be fixed. Yep, I understand, that it is not installer problem... >> (10) Mistype password for Root for second type -- no message about it, >> simple "New password:" prompt. It is not obvious, what happens. > That's the usual way passwd works? (which is what is running) passwd, run by hands on installed system, says "Mismatch; try again, EOF to quit". >> (11) No way to mount NFS file systems :) > You can do this easily from the shell of course, but I'll try to think I even could install FreeBSD from shell without any installer at all :) I have such experience, and it is not very difficult :) > about an appropriate UI for that. It may not get done in time for the > release. Great! -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_FreeBSD.org>Received on Sun Aug 21 2011 - 16:24:27 UTC
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