Re: boot loaders got fatter in the last few days

On 2016-03-18 12:33, Guido Falsi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just update one of my machines and noticed the booloaders files
> got quite fat in the last few days, some by a big margin.
>
> on an updated machine(r296993):
>
>> ls -l /boot/*boot*
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    8192 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     512 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot0
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     512 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot0sio
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     512 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot1
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   72152 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot1.efi
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  819200 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot1.efifat
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    7680 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/boot2
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    1185 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/cdboot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   85794 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/gptboot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  110546 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/gptzfsboot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  358400 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/pxeboot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  341248 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/userboot.so
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   66048 Mar 18 16:47 /boot/zfsboot
>
> from a machine I still have not updated(r296719):
>
>> ls -l /boot/*boot*
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    8192 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     512 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot0
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     512 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot0sio
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     512 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot1
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   72152 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot1.efi
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  819200 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot1.efifat
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    7680 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/boot2
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    1185 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/cdboot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   16059 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/gptboot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   41511 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/gptzfsboot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  288768 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/pxeboot
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  341208 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/userboot.so
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   66048 Mar 13 21:01 /boot/zfsboot
>
> I noticed because mu gpt boot partition is 64K and gptzfsboot just
> passed 100K.
>
> Is this expected and I'm supposed to repartition or is this an unwanted
> mistake?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

This is a side effect of the loader gaining the ability to boot from 
GELI encrypted partitions.

You can compile with LOADER_NO_GELI_SUPPORT to disable this to get back 
to a smaller one if you need.

Maybe we should be putting the GELI enabled boot blocks in a different 
filename? I generally wanted to avoid creating a new version of each 
bootcode with GELI support.

My goal somewhere down the road is to create a single bootcode that can 
do UFS and ZFS, then maybe we can have gptboot and gptgeliboot or something.


-- 
Allan Jude