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, especially as the guided partitioning tool is "recommended for beginners" - who may not be aware of performance issues of using unaligned partitions on 4k sectored disk, or may not be aware they are using such disks, or may not dare to venture into manual partitioning. Neither the freebsd-ufs partition, nor the freebsd-swap partition are aligned on a 4k boundary - quite unnecessarily so. At the expense of making the boot partition larger by 2 kB or shrinking it by 2 kB, the rest would align just fine. I see no ill effect for 512 B disks, but obvious benefit for 4k disks. Btw (unrelated), tried the same with a 2 TB (virtual) disk, the guided partitioning suggested 64k boot, 2TB ufs, and 4GB swap, but then fails with "No free space left on device". Didn't investigate, looks like a bug. MarkReceived on Mon Dec 05 2011 - 15:43:17 UTC
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