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Bug #9628
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UFS boot archives are too large
Start date:
2018-06-27
Due date:
% Done:
100%
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Difficulty:
Bite-size
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Description
When creating a UFS boot archive, the calculation for how much space will be required reserves 1024 times too much space for directories, resulting in boot archives around twice as big as they need to be.
bloody# /boot/solaris/bin/create_ramdisk --nocompress updating /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive updating /platform/i86pc/boot_archive bloody# gzip -dc /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive > /tmp/l bloody# ls -l /tmp/l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175M Jun 27 00:49 /tmp/l bloody# mount `lofiadm -a /tmp/l` /mnt bloody# df -h /mnt Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/lofi/1 163M 76.8M 70.2M 53% /mnt bloody# du -hs /mnt 75.8M /mnt
After the fix:
bloody# /boot/solaris/bin/create_ramdisk.new --nocompress updating /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive bloody# gzip -dc /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive > /tmp/l bloody# ls -l /tmp/l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91.7M Jun 27 00:55 /tmp/l bloody# mount `lofiadm -a /tmp/l` /mnt bloody# df -h /mnt Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/lofi/1 85.8M 76.8M 8.98M 90% /mnt bloody# du -hs /mnt 75.8M /mnt
Related issues
Updated by Andy Fiddaman about 5 years ago
- Related to Feature #9627: No longer need 32-bit boot_archive added
Updated by Andy Fiddaman about 5 years ago
- Status changed from New to Pending RTI
Updated by Electric Monk about 5 years ago
- Status changed from Pending RTI to Closed
- % Done changed from 90 to 100
git commit 75383e32bbd38e24115eefe5dee272d42a5c723e
commit 75383e32bbd38e24115eefe5dee272d42a5c723e
Author: Andy Fiddaman <omnios@citrus-it.co.uk>
Date: 2018-09-21T15:12:28.000Z
9627 No longer need 32-bit boot_archive
9628 UFS boot archives are too large
9721 cmd/boot: support cpio boot archive
Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
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