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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0100
From:      Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Speeding up the loader(8).
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2012/2/6 Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>:
> 2012/1/23 Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a <trasz@freebsd.org>:
>> Some time ago I've spent some time on trying to speed up loading
>> modules by the loader(8). =C2=A0Result can be found at:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/fast-loader-3.diff
>
> I use it successfully on my FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64 with ZFS on root.
> It sped up the loading time significantly, now booting on ZFS feels
> nearly as speedy as on UFS.

Some debug output on the loader screen since I use this patch :

BIOS drive D: is disk1
BIOS drive E: is disk2
[bd_realstrategy: reading 0] [bd_realstrategy: reading 0] [bd_realstrategy:=
 read
ing 0] BIOS 638 kB/3600049kB available

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