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Date:      Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:34:26 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Gustau P?rez <gperez@entel.upc.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rc.d script to load kernel modules
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On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 02:56:31PM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
>> So technically here a ZFS only install is lacking the speed in which
>> modules are loaded. I would prefer to find out why and fix that before
>> we go about adding new functionality to rcNG.
>
> As I believe Doug has already said, its not just loading modules from ZFS=
.
> In my experience, loading modules via loader.conf from UFS on i386 is
> significantly slower than once the kernel has booted on both of my system=
s
> here. =A0I think I've tried it and its not a disk thing as its slow loadi=
ng from
> flash media also.

    Dumb questions:
    1. Has anyone benchmarked the two methods in parallel? If so
what's the delta?
    2. Has anyone tried to determine why it is that way?
Thanks,
-Garrett



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