gptzfsboot grew a lot after skein support was added; need knob to control bloat
Allan Jude
allanjude at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 27 00:10:10 UTC 2017
On 2017-01-26 18:50, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
> <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I tried upgrading one of my workstations and unfortunately the freebsd-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’t have enough space or ability to resize the partition and make it bigger. So, I’m in need of a build knob to control the bloat, and/or having an alternative boot loader without geli/skein/crypto support compiled in. 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=1
>
> -Alan
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Yeah, most of the size is from the GELI support, not Skein, so that is
your best starting place.
I also have some work in progress with tsoome@ to further shrink things
for you.
--
Allan Jude
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