> From: Eric Schrock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 12:05 PM
> 
> The slow part of zpool import is actually discovering the 
> pool configuration.  This involves examining every device on 
> the system (or every device within a 'import -d' directory) 
> and seeing if it has any labels.  Internally, the import 
> action itself shoudl be quite fast...

Thanks for the answer.  Let me ask a follow-up question related to zpool import 
and the sun cluster+zfs integration -- is the slow part done "early" on the 
backup node so that at the time of the failover the actual import is "fast" as 
you describe above?

--

paul
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