From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 12:24:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808FE106566B for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBD18FC0A for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:24:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEBBE60EA; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:24:29 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from :to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=av1eOr3z1HEY J/yagkBxXF39LLw=; b=lF3T77sg/cyBNss4bdK9wDLZV5b408U9PZ7j07gZU/Hd duXf8pT1mnyJvVHw+549OMUS3YJUTYqbFu3mZTlbYpu8mT/3eJvXQKaO9QPPLxPM V4DHLp2b5uuBgGFUxAHhiTlQTlLxRW0iXFJQAa5BqInrKBfZNG7SMRpZPQJm4hI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from:to :cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=nOm+YZ bFRYM+EaUV4diO3kYL3ClqHRxUyuF5/znYO+0fQ8r2xiAOjjHwwWw1fgoCc9wPwz WDbv71HawCy84CGWdXpWuLELYUa6S31m7oDtCjYaIqxr4XE05dNzzDxjMvep5+tU FpIE/9KjkiL2xxw4PYvQfnRGLpVtZ3wFbAR8k= Received: from unknown (client-86-27-23-77.glfd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.27.23.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC688E60E8; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:24:28 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:24:26 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20110102122426.0000486b@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20101231234747.GA8171@icarus.home.lan> References: <4D1AF388.3080107@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4D1B7431.7070808@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4D1BD8D0.5010402@langille.org> <4D1C4A2D.4020206@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4D1C7929.3040809@langille.org> <20101231233343.GB48579@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20101231234747.GA8171@icarus.home.lan> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Langille , Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:24:30 -0000 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:47:47 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > There's a link to www.dan.me.uk at the bottom of the above Wiki page > that outlines "the madness" that's required to configure the setup, > all of which has to be done by hand. I don't know many > administrators who are going to tolerate this when deploying numerous > machines, especially when compounded by the complexities mentioned > above. All of that page could be summarized as: mkdir /usb mount /dev/da4 /usb /usb/install_zfs.sh Where da4 is a USB drive and install_zfs.sh is essentially the commands with some changes needed to support different disks. I'd imagine that administrators wouldn't use sysinstall in interactive mode when deploying to many machines. -- Bruce Cran