From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 12:20:59 2010 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 E0480106564A for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECDC8FC17 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA45508AA; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:20:58 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IsgzItGRuuBw; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EEF150852 ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4D1C7929.3040809@langille.org> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:20:57 -0500 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <4D1AF388.3080107@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4D1B7431.7070808@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4D1BD8D0.5010402@langille.org> <4D1C4A2D.4020206@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D1C4A2D.4020206@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:21:00 -0000 On 12/30/2010 4:00 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 30/12/2010 00:56, Dan Langille wrote: >>> them. You'll need to run both 'zpool update -a' and 'zfs update -a' -- > > As Jean-Yves pointed out: upgrade not update. Some word beginning with > 'up' anyhow. > >>> # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0 > >> This part applies only if you're booting from ZFS drives? > > Yes, if you're booting from ZFS and you're using gpt to partition the > disks, as described at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/ > et seq. That's probably the most common way of installing FreeBSD+ZFS in > use today. The reason I've not installed ZFS on root is because of the added complications. I run the OS on ufs (with gmirror) and my data is on ZFS. We must be hanging out with different groups. Most of the people I know don't have ZFS on root. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/