Speeding up the loader(8).

[Olivier Smedts]

2012/2/6 Olivier Smedts <olivier at gid0.org>:
> 2012/1/23 Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at freebsd.org>:
>> Some time ago I've spent some time on trying to speed up loading
>> modules by the loader(8).  Result 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

Is it normal ?

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