misc/161897: zfs parition probing causing long delay at BTX loader

[Nali Toja]

The following reply was made to PR misc/161897; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nali Toja <nalitoja at gmail.com>
To: Steven Hartland <steven.hartland at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/161897: zfs parition probing causing long delay at BTX loader
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:53:23 +0000

 Steven Hartland <steven.hartland at FreeBSD.org> writes:
 
 >>Description:
 > Installing a new machine here which has 10+ disks
 > we're seeing BTX loader take 50+ seconds to enumerate
 > the disks.
 >
 > After doing some digging I found the following thread
 > on the forums which hinted that r198420 maybe the
 > cause.
 > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12705
 [...]
 
 It was later reported in bin/148296 with a bit different fix and then
 closed for an unrelated reason[1].
 
 [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.BSF.2.00.1109160414460.24280