I have a mostly-Microsoft environment, under which I am trying to run FreeBSD 10. Now, I know that it runs like greased lightning on bare metal, however it seems to be running very slow under Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012 R2).
For example, under default setups (ext4), it takes about 5 minutes to get to the login prompt. Under ZFS, it can take up to 15 minutes to get to the same login prompt. This is with a default installation, nothing else fancy or special about it. 1GB RAM, 512-2048MB dynamic RAM allocation, 64GB vhxd.
From what I know, FreeBSD 10 is supposed to have Hyper-V optimizations and features baked right in, and this shows with some of the outputs during boot (I can see it loading Hyper-V functionality). However I cannot understand why it takes so long to get to the login prompt. Suggestions? Is there a different file system that makes things faster? Heck, most of my Server 2012 R2 VMs boot faster than FreeBSD.
FYI, I am looking for something a little more crash-tolerant than ext4. I had my host go down abruptly a week ago, and in doing so it corrupted a few partitions of my (then) FreeBSD server. I am thinking about using ZFS, but not if it takes 15 minutes to boot…
For example, under default setups (ext4), it takes about 5 minutes to get to the login prompt. Under ZFS, it can take up to 15 minutes to get to the same login prompt. This is with a default installation, nothing else fancy or special about it. 1GB RAM, 512-2048MB dynamic RAM allocation, 64GB vhxd.
From what I know, FreeBSD 10 is supposed to have Hyper-V optimizations and features baked right in, and this shows with some of the outputs during boot (I can see it loading Hyper-V functionality). However I cannot understand why it takes so long to get to the login prompt. Suggestions? Is there a different file system that makes things faster? Heck, most of my Server 2012 R2 VMs boot faster than FreeBSD.
FYI, I am looking for something a little more crash-tolerant than ext4. I had my host go down abruptly a week ago, and in doing so it corrupted a few partitions of my (then) FreeBSD server. I am thinking about using ZFS, but not if it takes 15 minutes to boot…
