svn commit: r304142 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 08/17/16 08:45, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> writes:
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
>>> I have mentioned several examples to you, and even told you how to
>>> confirm, by inspecting the source code, that most drivers do *not*
>>> set the stripe size.
>> Most drivers? Yes, sure. Most drivers that people use? No.
> Every.  Single.  Dell.  Server.
>
> Probably every single HP server as well, I haven't checked.
>
> VirtualBox gets it wrong.  Xen gets it wrong.  I believe KVM (including
> RHEV) and VMWare get it wrong too, but haven't been able to verify.
>
> I guess those aren't important to you?
>
> DES

OK. In which configurations? My Dell servers, for instance, don't do 
this. How are they set up? What drivers are being used? Is this 
something that affects passthrough disks, RAIDs, disk images?

The point is that *if the reported stripe size is wrong*, more things 
than partition alignment in the installer will suffer for it. Fixing the 
installer with a bandaid in the run-up to a release is fine, but *we 
need to fix the underlying problem*.
-Nathan