Re: port-sparc64/56363: boot: Inode not directory

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%nygren.pp.se@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-sparc64/56363; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn%nygren.pp.se@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: port-sparc64/56363: boot: Inode not directory
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:16:50 +0200

 On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 10:05:01 +0000 (UTC)
 Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR port-sparc64/56363; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: port-sparc64/56363: boot: Inode not directory
 > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:02:54 +0200
 > 
 >  On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 09:55:00AM +0000, tnn%nygren.pp.se@localhost wrote:
 >  > It would be good to improve the boot block error message is to hint
 >  > at the cause and possibly if sysinst could warn the user if "/" exceeds
 >  > 4 GB on this port.
 >  
 >  Why 4GB? Are you using the latest available firmware (that might be not
 >  so easy to answer)?
 
 Yes, as far as I know it is the latest & last release. The Netra 240 is
 a modern server by NetBSD/sparc64 standards. (dual USIII)
 
 >  I hate introducing aritificial limits like this when there is no
 >  clearly documented limit for the actual firmware (and I have been using
 >  bigger scsi disks in various sparc64 machines ~forever).
 
 It doesn't need to be a hard limit. A warning would suffice or at least
 a better error message. As is currently stands the default partition
 sizes suggested by sysinst render an unusable system with no clue
 how to work around it. Other than googling it and eventually,
 hopefully, finding this very PR.