ironic-lib/releasenotes/notes/increase-efi-partition-size-9479d069b17804ce.yaml
Julia Kreger 2f7f72e147 Increase the ESP partition size to 550 MB
This change makes ironic-lib consistent with ironic-python-agent
and diskimage-builder's defaults for ESP partition sizes.

The following fedora change lays out why this is a necessary
change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BiggerESP

In summary, additional space is needed if OS driven firmware
flashing is going to take place, and unikernels + next generation
bootloaders are going to consume more space than the existing
grub loader has.

Change-Id: I4fc63c02bf57a08e75121cfa1fd35a56c0427553
2023-11-07 07:12:24 -08:00

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The default size of EFI system partitions to be created, when writing a
partition image, has been increased to 550 Megabytes from 200 Megabytes.
If this change is undesirable, please utilize the
``efi_system_partition_size`` configuration option. This value is now
also consistent with the internal default when creating ESP volumes
for Software RAID with ``ironic-python-agent``, and the default carried
by ``diskimage-builder``. The prime driver for an increased partition
size is to enable OS driven firmware updates and appropriate space to
house Unikernels which requires additional space.