Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:20:57 -0500 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1 Message-ID: <4D1C7929.3040809@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <4D1C4A2D.4020206@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <AANLkTinfYync_BG3zV028Or4ZgHe5iQ2tLVd1mn4a0r%2B@mail.gmail.com> <4D1AF388.3080107@infracaninophile.co.uk> <AANLkTim2oV3phJ4bTFL_ENNZYknm7Gjt_3uFdMd1UpYd@mail.gmail.com> <4D1B7431.7070808@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4D1BD8D0.5010402@langille.org> <4D1C4A2D.4020206@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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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/
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