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Kurt Jaeger wrote on 07/14/2016 18:11:
> Hi!
>
>> I installed FreeBSD 10.3 on brand new machine Supermicro X11SSW-F. It
>> sits on top of 4x 1TB Samsung SSDs on ZFS RAIDZ2.
>>
>> The booting is painfully slow from BTX to menu to kernel loading.
>
> I have the same problem on a Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F.
>
>> Progress indicated by \ | / - characters is changing by speed of 1
>> character per 2 seconds.
>> The whole boot process takes about 10 minutes.
>>
>> I found this blog post solving the same problem
>> http://smyck.net/2016/06/15/freebsd-slow-zfs-bootloader/
>
> I'll test that solution. Thanks for the pointer!

If there will not be 10.4 Release, there is nothing to fix, because 11.0 
works, I know...

But still - is this something already known and fixed in 11 loader or is 
it something fixed by coincidence?
Can it be covered by some regression test?

Miroslav Lachman