Subject: Re: > 1T filesystems, disklabels, etc
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/16/2002 12:25:30
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 07:39:04PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> In message <20021216030400.GB856@endersgame.net>Sean Davis writes
> 
> >The main thing I see as an advantage to FreeBSD's 'slice' implementation is=
> > the
> >ease of partitioning. 
> 
> Isn't this a UI issue rather than a functionality or design issue?
> 
yes; perhaps I could better have said:
NetBSD needs an intuitive disk editor program that will run not only on install
but after install, when the system is already set up.

> If sysinst (or replacement) ran multi-user (as FreeBSD's
> /stand/sysinstall does), wouldn't that address your concerns?
> 
Yes.


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