Subject: Re: Default filesystem sizes
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/21/1999 22:59:30
On 21 Jun 1999, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com> writes:
> > Chris - would you have any idea of the timescale for getting
> > changes into sysinst for 1.4.1?
>
> Little or no clue. I don't know what releng's schedule is.
>
Ok - thanks.
> However, really, any such changes need to get done "as soon as
> possible." (note, in case anybody's confused: i'm sure not planning
> to implement it!) they NEED to be tested very well, too, and i'm
> actually fairly hesitant to see large changes like this go in simply
> because of the testing issue.
>
I'm happy to implement and perform sone reasonable degree of
testing - I'm just trying to achieve consensus before I
start writing something to be discarded :)
> Every change I've made to sysinst so far has been in response to a
> specific problem i've seen, and i've tested the results fairly
> thoroughly before and after.
I regard the current 'standard' partitioning as a problem,
and hope to fix the 'must have /usr' problem along the way.
David/absolute
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