Re: bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions

From: Maxim Khitrov <max_at_mxcrypt.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:30:05 -0500
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <CAJcQMWfgBrmGAAMwFPJVkTawgRXg5JDf1bTpOEkx61X32jftow_at_mail.gmail.com>
> , Maxim Khitrov writes:
>
>>Interesting... But [...]
>
> A "But" which I read to mean "Nahh, too hard, lets just hack it..."
>
> I don't agree with that, we should do it right.

How do you get around the hardware claiming to use 512-byte sectors
when it actually uses 4 kB internally? Same problem with virtual
machines, as Curtis pointed out. IMHO, this is just a matter of using
safe default values in bsdinstall.

- Max
Received on Mon Dec 05 2011 - 18:30:38 UTC

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