Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process

Hi,

On 11 February 2011 11:33, Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
[...]
> =A0I suspected BIOS, that's why I was going to get a new motherboard. I'v=
e
> always had problems getting gptzfsboot working on this hardware and there
> are no more BIOS updates now. That's why I have ufs root, as it only work=
ed
> intermitantly.

> =A0Then I wondered what the hell was going on in the loader that took >60=
s and
> seemingly touched every drive. I assumed it was FBSD that was tasting all
> the drives.
> =A0Cheers.

AFAIK if you have gptzfsboot on your drives it will probe the
partitions on your drives, which can take a while. So if you suspect
ZFS it might really be an option to replace gptzfsboot with gptboot.
I recently changed the configuration of my home server from 1x80GiB
SATA HDD (booting & /-pool) and 4x400GiB PATA HDD for zraid-Pool on
geli to 2x2TiB SATA HDD with gmirrored /boot and the rest for a geli
encrypted zmirror (including /). For me it feels as if it takes a few
seconds longer for the loader to appear. The latter uses GPT and
labels where possible.

HTH
Christian
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