Re: So much longer to update than install fresh (+ no install feedback)

Hi Paul,

I didn't see any other response to this. Is there a ZFS performance regression in 14.0? I wonder what a filesystem benchmark would show.

Thanks for your tests!

-Henrich


Oct 28, 2023, 21:54 by dufresnep@zoho.com:

> I realized that my previous message was a bit not precise.
>
> So, armed with the knowledge that "freebsd-update install" generally finish, I reinstalled 13.2 (which felt like 5 to 7 mins, did not clocked).
> Was zfs default install (without ssh server).
>
> Then I updated the 44 patches for 13.2, then rebooted.
>
> I then used "/usr/bin/time -h freebsd-update -r 14.0-BETA1 upgrade" to clock it
> (/usr/bin is necessary, else an internal time command is used, -h=humanly readable).
>
> It took a bit less than 20 mins to get the 10750 patches, apply them, and then get the 1309 files.
>
> Then the "/usr/bin/time -h freebsd-update install" before the reboot took 35.4 seconds.
>
> And then the "usr/bin/time -h freebsd-update install" after the reboot took:
> 42m49s (1m20s user, 1m27s sys).
>
> My hardware is a i3-8100 with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 of 250 Gbytes.
>
> So about 1h to get the first step from 13.2 to 14.0 (still needs Beta2, Beta3, Beta4, Beta5, rc1, rc2 and rc3 to be done).
>
> Again... first point is that seems so much slower than a fresh install, second, really not much feedback during install phase of the upgrade.
>