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

From: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:59:25 -0800
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

...

> The 'zfsboot' version, is dd's into the zfs boot code area. It is read
> by the assembly code there. It is important the file be the size that
> will be read, so it is padded out. That file is currently only used for
> MBR booting from ZFS.

Thank you for the info -- it would be really nice if this was noted in
the Makefile in more detail for the next soul who wonders why the
sizes are so different.
Thanks!
-Ngie
Received on Sat Jan 28 2017 - 19:59:27 UTC

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