I have "buggy" iso, where there is no /boot/loader.conf file, but loader
does not fail with file not found, but instead, it does open
/boot/defaults/loader.conf.
While investigating I found:
- the directory extent for /boot is 4096 bytes
- the last file in directory, /boot/zfsloader, ends at extent offset 2048.
- the next entry has length 0 (and in fact, all the directory entry is zero).
So we have hit the corner case with second half of the directory extent is
actually padding.