slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Thu Dec 30 09:00:42 UTC 2010


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.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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