From owner-freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Mon Aug 8 17:39:24 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3463BB2CA5 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:39:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 927321ED3 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:39:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u78HdO4e044167 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:39:24 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 211361] suggested boot partition size is too small, bsdinstall creates unaligned partitions Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:39:24 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: misc X-Bugzilla-Version: 11.0-STABLE X-Bugzilla-Keywords: patch, performance X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Many People X-Bugzilla-Who: des@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Status: Open X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Flags: mfc-stable11? X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:39:24 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D211361 --- Comment #14 from Dag-Erling Sm=C3=83=C2=B8rgrav --- This is not a matter of a bad default. The kernel is doing its best to tel= l us the truth about the disk. Based in part on that information, we need to ma= ke a policy decision - one of *dozens* of policy decisions the installer makes, don't try to pretend otherwise - to round partition offsets up to the neare= st 4 kB boundary. You are asking me to change the underlying mechanism, possibly breaking other kernel or OS components and who knows what else, in order to avoid making a policy decision. That's not going to fly. And once again, gpart is a command-line interface to geom_part(4). It does= not have defaults. It does not care about alignment or CHS geometry or any of a number of things that the installer *does* know and care about, so saying "bsdinstall should have the same behavior as gpart" is spurious. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=