Re: gptzfsboot grew a lot after skein support was added; need knob to control bloat

From: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:16:18 -0800
> On Jan 27, 2017, at 09:05, Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:

...

> I'm curious why you can't find the space for a bigger partition?
> Almost all drives these days are partitioned with a little wasted
> space, and that wasted space should be more than enough to cover us
> here. Also, most drives have a swap partition that can be shrunk a
> trivial amount to get space for this...

Unfortunately, in my infinite wisdom (IIRC) I put the zfs partition before the swap partition.

We have a similar problem at work with sys/boot unfortunately, but that's a side discussion for another time/place.

Thank you for the idea though -- I'll check when I get back to work.

-Ngie
Received on Fri Jan 27 2017 - 19:16:20 UTC

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