Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:39:24 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 211361] suggested boot partition size is too small, bsdinstall creates unaligned partitions Message-ID: <bug-211361-8-ioCFUeyuPp@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-211361-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-211361-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D211361 --- Comment #14 from Dag-Erling Sm=C3=83=C2=B8rgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> --- 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.=
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