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Date:      Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:30:05 -0500
From:      Maxim Khitrov <max@mxcrypt.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bsdinstall guided partitioning should 4k-align swap and ufs partitions
Message-ID:  <CAJcQMWcyGKGMD3-vHxqrtVEcR4ax=OhMNfanwAyJ8EDOSpcY3g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <57319.1323109452@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <CAJcQMWfgBrmGAAMwFPJVkTawgRXg5JDf1bTpOEkx61X32jftow@mail.gmail.com> <57319.1323109452@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <CAJcQMWfgBrmGAAMwFPJVkTawgRXg5JDf1bTpOEkx61X32jftow@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



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