Subject: Re: > 1T filesystems, disklabels, etc
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/16/2002 19:21:13
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:25:30PM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> > >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.

The important thing that I would like to see come out of wedges
from a user point of view is the ability to say 'allocate a
filesystem of size x on disk y' so that we can finally relegate
to the scrap heap of history all this mucking about with block
offsets.


-- 
Soren