Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:50:24 -0700 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gptzfsboot grew a lot after skein support was added; need knob to control bloat Message-ID: <CAOtMX2gnmJ8tRD6NTcAaYdM_cWo=efUaZAun79KV8oCB3K=vXw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <A33154F2-70E1-4047-8496-7D4D85CFF292@gmail.com> References: <A33154F2-70E1-4047-8496-7D4D85CFF292@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I tried upgrading one of my workstations and unfortunately the freebsd-boot partition is too small (I follow manpage directions, exactly, and those seem to be too small as of 10.3-RELEASE timeframe), and I don’t have enough space or ability to resize the partition and make it bigger. So, I’m in need of a build knob to control the bloat, and/or having an alternative boot loader without geli/skein/crypto support compiled in. Would you be opposed to the work? > Thanks, > -Ngie We have this problem at work too. We deal with it by defining the following in src.conf. The build system already knows about this variable, though it isn't in src.conf's manpage. LOADER_NO_GELI_SUPPORT=1 -Alan
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