https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253787

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I have a workaround now: 6 (instead of 8) spindles in RAID 10 with two hot
spares for 8.3TB.

Use "best practices" vs taking the defaults from the FreeBSD Installer? Isn't
that a best practice of sorts?

It seems "Auto (UFS) Guided Disk Setup" doesn't work in all use cases?

There are SATA drives bigger than 11.1TB these days. This isn't a big RAID
setup.

I am not a fan of ZFS. I'll pass, thank you.

AFAIK, the controller I am using doesn't support JBOD, pass-through or a
reflash to IT firmware. There are other Dell controllers that do support those
features, the H700/H800 do not.

The error I get from bsdinstall (calling autopart) is here:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/master/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/gpart_ops.c#L1064

It looks like geom is valid (there's a few guards) but the pointer to
&firstfree could be the issue? Or something in gpart_max_free()?

This commit seems sensible and maybe this is somewhere for me to start looking?
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/4af559e39b295c6950e25663f638d1737808a205

I wonder if the H700 is doing some funny business with sector sizes when the
volume is over a specific size?

Btw, I would say that there's a bug in bsdinstall here:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/de1aa3dab23c06fec962a14da3e7b4755c5880cf/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/auto#L328

bsdinstall autopart || error "Partitioning error" is failing in my case.
Perhaps the error isn't making it back to the parent shell?

I should be getting the error "Partitioning error" but I am not. I am getting
the error from partedit/autopart.

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