From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri Mar 18 18:01:16 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 7A853AD4A41 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:01:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from killing@multiplay.co.uk) Received: from mail-wm0-x22b.google.com (mail-wm0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12B58BF2 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:01:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from killing@multiplay.co.uk) Received: by mail-wm0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id l124so40200103wmf.1 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:01:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=multiplay-co-uk.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rAriyR8UwDatQLrkZXk90UHIYRXX1xYnGL/R0u16n/Y=; b=TG4E3S6LZdIDO1cudoTQQBlOquiEyTeYofL7meSVReskD/Z9KUGxHz9ceDSs8jFV0w vKNT+tsFSmgxCQ3yachIuCUipZbpLva7CFwwaNR5XzogvKmQ0n+U8uXPNW8XiHNXcjoC FyYbuSuN9BDLS8E47Ad2ZcvuhcLt7+c0Xu+gwpTjOjyDiEJbpUjLvgqDfUYuo7/kTIRw aS2qMwbYGIvdawojfQCVHCbs74s/LOayz+HeNhtS99Ux9n5MfKjmBY4Cyirqj1O6kod6 fil6rCIxI024oRbKLfTHWzBoAekIIi2ARXs2Ulka2aJZJYldtdc4qLcHvbmOVIVysPrX KgJw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rAriyR8UwDatQLrkZXk90UHIYRXX1xYnGL/R0u16n/Y=; b=RtyB6rqUNT29yV0mcAsKOE5MzQLYv9UaXOE2mfTnf0ghPcHf/jX4DLdP4u92/Voro6 Ah93PWT4Ext2ZNGY33IJaM4ABwwFnoxk5qqdXaPWOimS4+GiswebPCiYFXLIaYEZWXzw iJPzIbAueeofWpasQnp3/kuB4qx0LSevyWksMSL27e5X0yGyFKwylIr6b3MsibVC4jqr PD6vLhEFc8H2K35qK2SMK8SKaKWxGmxHH+fr1FKbToFYbaftRf+g4Qd2lBUySexoCjqZ ej0TBKDFKg9O2XxtbcTWyV1tHnARA4PCz4Z8cmJ7Hm/lTqRCz1VZh6xwyBbLFlIMCp5D QmEQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJIA9zbiPkwwNYFFLBKvBAfxyen4AsA5odMNWOrqGmBiYukap+0hLfhjh43iRKC1MLF1 X-Received: by 10.194.202.195 with SMTP id kk3mr17127600wjc.159.1458324074595; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:01:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.10.1.58] (liv3d.labs.multiplay.co.uk. [82.69.141.171]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id lh1sm13164267wjb.20.2016.03.18.11.01.13 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: boot loaders got fatter in the last few days To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <56EC2DD3.6050803@madpilot.net> <184a723793384094ded3c6037dd19529@mail.yourbox.net> <56EC400E.5030207@madpilot.net> From: Steven Hartland Message-ID: <56EC4269.2030704@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:01:13 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56EC400E.5030207@madpilot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 18:01:16 -0000 On 18/03/2016 17:51, Guido Falsi wrote: > On 03/18/16 17:54, José Pérez wrote: >> Hi Guido, >> maybe it's because of this: >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=296963 >> > I see. > > There is a problem with this though, we have howtos suggesting 64K for > the size of the freebsd-boot gpt partition: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ1 > > now that size isn't sufficient anymore. We should at least update these > information soon. > > Also repartitioning could be problematic in certain scenarios. I think > this change should be at least published in UPDATING and maybe also in > the future release notes for 11.0. > > Personally I'll find a way of reorganizing my disks to fit this change, > but it's something that could byte users. > Yes indeed I would suggest if we increase it we do by a decent amount e.g. jump straight to 1MB. Regards Steve