tsoome: is there a reason you stop at 4k sector size for pcfs? is it impossible or too hard to implement 8k, 16k, etc.?

TBH, I was just using list of values from microsoft fatgen103 document, as long as the value is power of 2 -- other than it, the size value does not really change the code itself.

i see

basically any value above 4k is non-standard, dosfstools mkfs is allowing values up to 32k

i see

i was just wondering because in the past i used virtio-blk devices in some VMs that had a 8k sector size, although I don't recall whether that was 8k logical or 8k native

yep, I was also thinking about those 8k native flash memory implementations etc.

from practical point, the fs itself is depending on 512B structures for boot sector and fsinfo (and their backups), so with 32k sector, you will have number of unused bytes:D

i'm not losing sleep about wasting 32256 bytes :)

ofc the current loader dosfs does not really check for those backups (nor alternate fat).

:)

ok. need to fix pcfs now, then I can verify my installboot patch...

then there are mkfs and fsck...

have fun :)

um, did we fix reboot with iscsi initiators?

nop, we did not.

no

it's still not great

it seemed like everyone decided what the fix was, and then nobody fixed it

probably because the people who figured out what to do don't have pools on iscsi to check it out?

i mean, you could use another illumos instance to serve up an iscsi volume

but our iscsi target code is pretty terrible tbh

(none of our customers use it, so we've not really had a reason to dedicate time to it)

(if you want to see some fireworks, try using PGR on our target code :P)

jbk yea, its the opposite of great:)

"none of our customers use it" sure sounds a bit chicken and egg

"What we sell is crap, because nobody uses it"

I mean, yeah

for our stuff it doesn't make as much sense

i mean, i'd like to improve it since it would make it easier to test certain things

Oh right, I'm just saying that logic is self-reinforcing

just i've got several other things in front of it

what's the deal with DEFAULTINURI in github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blo…sr/src/tools/scripts/onu.sh.in#L32? I feel like I'm doing something wrong just following illumos.org/docs/developers/build/#installing-your-build and getting an error about ips.sfbay repo

you forgot to specify -d probably?

ipkg.sfbay is the ancient ancient default pkg server inside sun microsystems, that nobody fixed because there's no... default anymore?

we should probably make it fail usefully, rather than trying to look that up

concur!

I'll fix it. Filing a bug now..

→ BUG 16799: onu should not have a default package URI (New)

sommerfeld: thank you!