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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 fr=
eebsd-boot partition is too small (I follow manpage directions, exactly, an=
d 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

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=3D1

-Alan



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