Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8)

On Friday 09 April 2010 5:23:18 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@xxxxxx> writes:
Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@xxxxxx> writes:
[restored relevant context which was removed earlier in the thread]
...which is exactly what I said - but in the sysinstall case, you
may
want to ask some additional questions ("are you sure you want to
proceed
without a swap partition?") or place some additional constraints
(such
as "don't allow the user to mount something on top of /mnt or
/rescue"),
and sysinstall needs to know the outcome.
If the user shoots him or herself in the foot, that's their own
problem.
That kind of attitude is why people choose Linux over FreeBSD...
Where do you draw the line though? /media, /libexec, /proc, /sys, etc?
I think it's better to educate users than build in more complexity to
the install application.

I draw the line at mounting something - anything - on top of directories
that contain files that are critical to sysinstall's operation. IIRC,
/mnt is where the installation CD is mounted.

FYI, the CD is mounted at /dist. sysinstall mounts the new filesystems in
/mnt and then chroots into /mnt before doing the actual install.

--
John Baldwin
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