Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:30:10 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=c3=b8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r304142 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit Message-ID: <b96c3f91-faaa-2552-b4da-2d0d382461af@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86k2ff4cxs.fsf@desk.des.no> References: <201608150930.u7F9UL1V069576@repo.freebsd.org> <e3454e8e-5d98-5bec-21de-8ea0db2b9b08@freebsd.org> <861t1n6749.fsf@desk.des.no> <581c856c-826b-529e-c9c6-a397fb679708@freebsd.org> <86wpjf4eun.fsf@desk.des.no> <8cb3fa1a-50cb-e238-d006-b98a628d446d@freebsd.org> <86k2ff4cxs.fsf@desk.des.no>
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On 08/17/16 08:45, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> writes: >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes: >>> I have mentioned several examples to you, and even told you how to >>> confirm, by inspecting the source code, that most drivers do *not* >>> set the stripe size. >> Most drivers? Yes, sure. Most drivers that people use? No. > Every. Single. Dell. Server. > > Probably every single HP server as well, I haven't checked. > > VirtualBox gets it wrong. Xen gets it wrong. I believe KVM (including > RHEV) and VMWare get it wrong too, but haven't been able to verify. > > I guess those aren't important to you? > > DES OK. In which configurations? My Dell servers, for instance, don't do this. How are they set up? What drivers are being used? Is this something that affects passthrough disks, RAIDs, disk images? The point is that *if the reported stripe size is wrong*, more things than partition alignment in the installer will suffer for it. Fixing the installer with a bandaid in the run-up to a release is fine, but *we need to fix the underlying problem*. -Nathan
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