On 06 October, 2008 - Luke Schwab sent me these 2,0K bytes:

> Is this a design choice with ZFS coding or a bug? Is there anything I
> can do to increase my import times? We do have the same setup on one
> of our SANs with only 10-20 luns instead of 400+ and the imports take
> only 1-3 seconds. My guess here is that the large number of luns is
> effecting imports. But our virtual farm design is broken if we can
> imported at least 30-40 luns in under a minute on a given server.

I believe it will scan all available devices (LUNs) for pool
information.. If you only want to scan a subset, you can for instance
make a new directory somewhere and put symlinks there to the real
devices, then 'zpool import -d /that/directory'  to only search there
for devices to consider.

/Tomas
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Tomas Ögren, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/
|- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå
`- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se
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