On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Toomas Soome <tso...@me.com> wrote: > >> On 27. jaan 2017, at 1:40, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurab...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I tried upgrading one of my workstations and unfortunately the >> freebsd-boot partition is too small (I follow manpage directions, exactly, >> and those seem to be too small as of 10.3-RELEASE timeframe), and I don’t >> have enough space or ability to resize the partition and make it bigger. So, >> I’m in need of a build knob to control the bloat, and/or having an >> alternative boot loader without geli/skein/crypto support compiled in. Would >> you be opposed to the work? >> Thanks, >> -Ngie > > > I do agree that since the geli knob is already there, it may do. Of course we > also can think of additional knobs, but there is an issue - it wont help just > to exclude some files, the additional features also do sit in the code, so > the replacement stubs will be needed, also testing them all over will take > some time. And the preprocessor spaghetti really is nasty thing to deal with;) > > And then there is another issue (partly why I did the feature support in > first place) - as the kernel does not block user from enabling the features, > the user can end up facing non-bootable setup which is also not good, as user > is using perfectly legal options, and still the whole thing is just rendered > unusable…
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... Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
