Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:05:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> Cc: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gptzfsboot grew a lot after skein support was added; need knob to control bloat Message-ID: <CANCZdfrzOr3YdbAKRrwUXsFDhdQ3hErf1vbYSG7MdpV_m%2B=YRQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <EF719374-BF9D-44EF-9F45-53B2B506047C@me.com> References: <A33154F2-70E1-4047-8496-7D4D85CFF292@gmail.com> <EF719374-BF9D-44EF-9F45-53B2B506047C@me.com>
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote: > >> On 27. jaan 2017, at 1:40, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya@gmail.= com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I tried upgrading one of my workstations and unfortunately the fre= ebsd-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=E2=80= =99t have enough space or ability to resize the partition and make it bigge= r. So, I=E2=80=99m in need of a build knob to control the bloat, and/or hav= ing an alternative boot loader without geli/skein/crypto support compiled i= n. Would you be opposed to the work? >> Thanks, >> -Ngie > > > I do agree that since the geli knob is already there, it may do. Of cours= e we also can think of additional knobs, but there is an issue - it wont he= lp just to exclude some files, the additional features also do sit in the c= ode, so the replacement stubs will be needed, also testing them all over wi= ll take some time. And the preprocessor spaghetti really is nasty thing to = deal with;) > > And then there is another issue (partly why I did the feature support in = first place) - as the kernel does not block user from enabling the features= , the user can end up facing non-bootable setup which is also not good, as = user is using perfectly legal options, and still the whole thing is just re= ndered unusable=E2=80=A6 I'm curious why you can't find the space for a bigger partition? Almost all drives these days are partitioned with a little wasted space, and that wasted space should be more than enough to cover us here. Also, most drives have a swap partition that can be shrunk a trivial amount to get space for this... Warner
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