bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs
partitions
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Dec 5 16:47:54 UTC 2011
In message <201112051743.13483.Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si>, Mark Martinec wri
tes:
>Using a guided partitioning install of 9.0-RC2 on a 64GB (virtual) disk
>(from a 9.0-RC2 ISO image) results in the following GPT partitioning:
>
># gpart show /dev/ada0
>=> 34 134217661 ada0 GPT (64G)
> 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k)
> 162 125828992 2 freebsd-ufs (60G)
> 125829154 6709248 3 freebsd-swap (3.2G)
> 132538402 1679293 - free - (820M)
>
>This is most unfortunate for installations using 4kB sectored disks
>or SSD disks, [...]
This is not a new problem, you face the same issue with RAID5 devices.
GEOM defines two provider properties for handling all these cases
correctly: stripesize + stripeoffset.
If the disk-driver has a 4k drive, or suspects it has a 4k drive (
these properties are advisory only), it should announce that with
the stripe* properties on its GEOM provider.
GEOM classes are responsible for passing these properties up with
whatever adjustments are necessary (for instance modifying the
stripeoffset for partitions).
The partitioning tools, (All of them!) should examine these two
properties and prod the user towards not doing something silly.
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