> The first time I did this I thought something was broken when I
> watched the newfs output those duplicate super block locations. It was
> about 10 seconds between each block! After a search of the FreeBSD
> lists I found a reference to initializing the array, and just waited.
>
> On ttyv1 the kernel issues a message when the array initialization is
> done, so I usually just wait for that.
Newfs is even more pessimal, due to the alignment fixup the driver has to
perform. However, the array is perfectly usable while it's being
initialised. Just. Dog. Slow. 8)
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