From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri Mar 18 18:04:42 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 6C185AD4CCA for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:04:42 +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 50A17F26 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:04:42 +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 090B5DD02 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:04:42 +0000 (UTC) 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> <56EC4269.2030704@multiplay.co.uk> From: Allan Jude Message-ID: <56EC4333.7050201@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:04:35 -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: <56EC4269.2030704@multiplay.co.uk> 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 18:04:42 -0000 On 2016-03-18 14:01, Steven Hartland wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Due to limitations in the assembly bits (pmbr.S) the maximum size is 545kb, so the zfsboot part of the install creates 512kb partitions by default -- Allan Jude