Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:02:55 -0400 From: David Wimsey <dwimsey@rtsz.com> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gptzfsboot very slow Message-ID: <211EBAB0-5105-4106-A3CF-30E4D08301DF@rtsz.com> In-Reply-To: <5082D202.9010701@FreeBSD.org> References: <D5C49DEE-EAC6-4D2A-8E46-CD1BF6830151@rtsz.com> <5082D202.9010701@FreeBSD.org>
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On Oct 20, 2012, at 12:32 PM, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 20.10.2012 12:50, David Wimsey wrote: >> My file server is configured with zfs root based on >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror >> >> When booting, after it gets past the BIOS drive C: is disk0 (one line >> for each of the 6 drives as expected) part, drops to a new line and >> the rotating twiddle starts its bit. At first it moves a long at a >> almost normal looking speed, then it starts only ticking away slowly, >> maybe once or twice a minute. >> >> It appears that its scanning the entire drive or something odd. Its >> hard to tell if its doing it on all the drives as half of them are on >> a RocketRAID card (configured as JBOD) which doesn't have a LED >> indicator attached to it for showing activity. >> >> There are a total of 6 drives in the machine. >> >> 2 drives are SSDs which are sliced up to provide the root mirror >> vdev, a mirrored vdev for the zip if the main pool on the machine and >> each provide a slice L2ARC. Some of the remaining space is in a >> small pool 3 of the HDDs are part of a raidz vdev for my main pool. >> The remaining HDD is a hot spare. >> >> If I remove the HDDs from the system and just let the SSDs handle the >> boot, its faster but still far longer than it should be, so when I'm >> in a hurry I unplug the 4 HDDs, boot, wait for it to get to the >> FreeBSD boot menu, plug the HDDs back in and send it on its marry >> way. >> >> This can not be expected behavior in my mind. Why is it doing so >> much disk thrashing when the pools are all perfectly clean. > > Hi, David. > > These lines are not from gptzfsboot, but from the loader. You can try > the loader(8) from the FreeBSD 10-CURRENT, you may take it from recent > snapshot: > https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/10.0-HEAD-20121006-JPSNAP/stage/trees/boot/zfsloader > > -- > WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov > > -- > WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov > Ding! We have a winner! The new zfsloader fixed the problem, the twiddle keeps spinning fast and only takes a few seconds before jumping to the boot menu. Thanks! Just out of curiosity, do you know what change fixed it or what exactly the old loader was doing?home | help
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