Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
Similarly, the bulk of the synchronous I/O done during the import of SMF manifests early in boot after an install or upgrade are wasted effort..
I've done hundreds of installs. Empirically, my observation is that the SMF manifest import scales well with processors. In other words, I don't notice it being I/O bound. I suppose I could move my dtrace boot analysis scripts to the first boot and verify... -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss