upgrade stable/12 -> stable/13 zfs + boot partition Mediasize 64K

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Fri Feb 12 01:44:13 UTC 2021


On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 04:43:57PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Freddie Cash, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Sorry, meant 256 KB or 512 KB, not MB!

Worth remembering: at least in the past, there was also an _upper_
limit to the size based on the lower-level bootblocks that read the
freebsd-boot partition, above which things would also break horribly.
I don't recall exactly what it was, but it was >512k and <1m (maybe
600k-ish?).  So don't just make it arbitrarily bigger.


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