From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by 10.236.95.4 with SMTP id o4csp22150yhf; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <9front+bncCMnN582LARCVjN-ABRoE_gJBSg@googlegroups.com> Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of 9front+bncCMnN582LARCVjN-ABRoE_gJBSg@googlegroups.com designates 10.229.105.161 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.229.105.161 Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of 9front+bncCMnN582LARCVjN-ABRoE_gJBSg@googlegroups.com designates 10.229.105.161 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=9front+bncCMnN582LARCVjN-ABRoE_gJBSg@googlegroups.com; dkim=pass header.i=9front+bncCMnN582LARCVjN-ABRoE_gJBSg@googlegroups.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.229.105.161]) by 10.229.105.161 with SMTP id t33mr2761684qco.17.1343735317245 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:48:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:x-sasl-enc:date:from:to:subject:message-id :in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=49uXazlTUxR/bhgl0dJ4Dv1+LxUzqkA1mvdytVV6API=; b=gtp3JYP4RszflSo40S0D3G3PjPEOcYGB+vCY132hfSIIadau58UDEpPVU0+p0uWABR lASNl60GKxfYOFI4nK53jTx59vrMpuwHd5m8qCLwC8fFHKQsyQH4/5RlL9x66s/sMmdd ix1wMYdSBrmRlYCMIgOgZElZ+K4wvlkAP97O0= Received: by 10.229.105.161 with SMTP id t33mr557838qco.17.1343735317087; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:48:37 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: 9front@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.224.186.193 with SMTP id ct1ls206476qab.9.gmail; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.59.73 with SMTP id k9mr9896001qah.4.1343735316855; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.59.73 with SMTP id k9mr9896000qah.4.1343735316844; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com. [66.111.4.25]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z30si2328279qcd.3.2012.07.31.04.48.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of eekee57@fastmail.fm designates 66.111.4.25 as permitted sender) client-ip=66.111.4.25; Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBE6207C9 for <9front@googlegroups.com>; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:48:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:48:36 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: TvSBK3L3ZybPeljypqw5o3cg7wfg2X7AYZhWym14oSys 1343735316 Received: from vardo.ethans.dre.am (unknown [86.25.228.202]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1CB414835FE for <9front@googlegroups.com>; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:48:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:48:34 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9front@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Installing 9front Message-ID: <20120731124834.0b78c3d3@vardo.ethans.dre.am> In-Reply-To: <5016B4B8.3040608@gmail.com> References: <5016B4B8.3040608@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: eekee57@fastmail.fm X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of eekee57@fastmail.fm designates 66.111.4.25 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=eekee57@fastmail.fm; dkim=pass header.i=@fastmail.fm Reply-To: 9front@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list 9front@googlegroups.com; contact 9front+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: <9front.googlegroups.com> X-Google-Group-Id: 831096995978 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: 9front@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:22:16 -0400 Matthew Veety wrote: > On 7/30/12 7:09 AM, Uriel wrote: > > 3) Not only are the disk space requirements are somewhat high, but you > > get no warning if your disk is too small, you go all the way into > > copydist, which barfs on disk full errors, but 'completes' anyway and > > pretends it is done and that you can go on with the next install step. > > > > At the very least we should warn if the disk is too small, and > > probably we should fail before going into copydist. > > I agree with you here, an option to use kfs would be awesome, especially > because cwfs is overkill for non-fileserver cases. > > Also, I think work should be done to make cwfs a little more versatile > when it comes to disk size. > > -- > Veety > No need, you can run a dump-free cwfs. Making the installer support (and explain) that should be quite trivial. -- This is obviously some strange usage of the word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.