Re: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:08:03 -0800 mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: I imagine something high-up in the kernel is asking the ZFS for the first block of a file, and only at that point does all the paperwork processing for consistency check come into play, so there are no

gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
I've recently installed a ZFS-only system which is booting from GPT using a 'legacy' BIOS. Something I noticed straight away is that the loader takes a very long time: it pauses after enumerating the disks but before displaying information about the installed memory: BTX loader 1.0.0 BTX version

Re: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-11-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Bruce == Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk writes: Bruce Is it normal for booting to take such a long time when booting Bruce from GPT? Are you shutting down cleanly? I noticed my VPS takes a bit when I've done a hard reboot, but not when I let it go through all the nice sync, even though there

Re: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:08:03 -0800 mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: I imagine something high-up in the kernel is asking the ZFS for the first block of a file, and only at that point does all the paperwork processing for consistency check come into play, so there are no