Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is because the installer always considers the first root disk it
> finds as the one to upgrade, which is certainly not what I intend or
> expect when booting/upgrading the softraid installation on sd1-3.
What does
first root disk
Mean?
There is only one root disk. The root disk is the one that actually contains
the / that is mounted.
It is this one:
root on sd0a (fb786f6b01042b30.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
You cannot change this. If you use the bootloader to tell the kernel do
do something else, then I argue that sysupgrade and the installer should
punish you unless you *manually tell it that every time*
The install script knows what the root filesystem is using very simple
heuristics, but by creating two new sysctl, I am afraid you will enrich
this ability to support bizzare configurations that did not work, and
I argue *should never work*.
> It is probably not that common to have multiple installations/root disks
> in one machine, but it isn't "weird" to me, either.
What? It is not weird
I think this is unsupported bullshit.
Why do we need the install script to support this configuration you
created? Why do we need to encourage other people to have such
configurations? When they create such a configuration, and find the
tooling can support it, won't they go and do even stranger things, then
find the tooling doesn't support that even-stranger setup, and then
you'll come back adding support for increasingly strange setups, and
eventually we are going to end up with a large userbase *not using* a
single root filesystem?
> Overwriting the wrong system during an upgrade because the installer
> makes too big of an assumption about the first disk is weird to me.
>
>
> I can post console logs later showing how the installer picks the wrong
> disk, if you want.
There is only one possible root filesystem.
If you created multiple root filesystems, you have created a mess and
why is it wrong for me to argue you need to experience pain for the
decisions that led you there?
I do not think you are being honest about the reason for these extensions.
