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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:30:00 -0800
From:      Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gptzfsboot grew a lot after skein support was added; need knob to control bloat
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> On Jan 27, 2017, at 12:23, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:

...

>> Unfortunately, in my infinite wisdom (IIRC) I put the zfs partition befor=
e the swap partition.
>>=20
>> We have a similar problem at work with sys/boot unfortunately, but that's=
 a side discussion for another time/place.
>>=20
>> Thank you for the idea though -- I'll check when I get back to work.
>>=20
>> -Ngie
>=20
> Note the order of the partitions is not important, at least on paper anyho=
w. Of course there are preferences in sense that it does look nice if freebs=
d-boot is in front. Also, if you do have mirror setup, it is some work, but y=
ou can re-arrange mirror side partitioning (with usual cautions like having s=
crub done, having backup, having third disk would be helpful).

I have a raidz with 3 SSDs on it IIRC. Removing the SSD from the pool and re=
adjusting partitions would probably be ok, but I'm not really keen on doing p=
otentially destructive things like that, unless I absolutely have to do them=
 :/..

Thanks!
-Ngie=



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