boot loaders got fatter in the last few days

[Allan Jude]

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
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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