From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri Mar 18 17:03:19 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@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 03C3CAD56F0 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:03:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allanjude@freebsd.org) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (mx1.scaleengine.net [209.51.186.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD73E356 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:03:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allanjude@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (unknown [192.168.1.10]) (Authenticated sender: allanjude.freebsd@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D72CEDAC1 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: boot loaders got fatter in the last few days To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <56EC2DD3.6050803@madpilot.net> From: Allan Jude Message-ID: <56EC34CE.1000002@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:03:10 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56EC2DD3.6050803@madpilot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:03:19 -0000 On 2016-03-18 12:33, Guido Falsi wrote: > Hi, > > I have just update one of my machines and noticed the booloaders files > got quite fat in the last few days, some by a big margin. > > on an updated machine(r296993): > >> ls -l /boot/*boot* > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8192 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot0 > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot0sio > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot1 > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 72152 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot1.efi > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 819200 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot1.efifat > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7680 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot2 > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1185 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/cdboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 85794 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/gptboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 110546 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/gptzfsboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 358400 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/pxeboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 341248 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/userboot.so > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 66048 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/zfsboot > > from a machine I still have not updated(r296719): > >> ls -l /boot/*boot* > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8192 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot0 > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot0sio > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot1 > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 72152 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot1.efi > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 819200 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot1.efifat > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7680 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot2 > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1185 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/cdboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 16059 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/gptboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 41511 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/gptzfsboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 288768 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/pxeboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 341208 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/userboot.so > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 66048 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/zfsboot > > I noticed because mu gpt boot partition is 64K and gptzfsboot just > passed 100K. > > Is this expected and I'm supposed to repartition or is this an unwanted > mistake? > > Thanks in advance. > This is a side effect of the loader gaining the ability to boot from GELI encrypted partitions. You can compile with LOADER_NO_GELI_SUPPORT to disable this to get back to a smaller one if you need. Maybe we should be putting the GELI enabled boot blocks in a different filename? I generally wanted to avoid creating a new version of each bootcode with GELI support. My goal somewhere down the road is to create a single bootcode that can do UFS and ZFS, then maybe we can have gptboot and gptgeliboot or something. -- Allan Jude