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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s
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>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> writes:

Bruce> Is it normal for booting to take such a long time when booting
Bruce> from GPT?

Are you shutting down cleanly?

I noticed my VPS takes a bit when I've done a hard reboot, but not when
I let it go through all the nice sync, even though there aren't any
console messages.

I imagine something high-up in the kernel is asking the ZFS for the
first block of a file, and only at that point does all the paperwork
processing for consistency check come into play, so there are no
messages, just a pause.

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