Re: [zfs-discuss] Use of blocksize (-b) during zfs zvol create, poor performance

2010-06-30 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Eff, There are a significant number of variables to work through with dedup and compression enabled. So the first suggestion I have is to disable those features for now so your not working with too many elements. With those features set aside an NTFS cluster operation does not = a 64k raw

[zfs-discuss] Use of blocksize (-b) during zfs zvol create, poor performance

2010-06-29 Thread Effrem Norwood
Hi All, I created a zvol with the following options on an X4500 with 16GB of ram: zfs create -s -b 64K -V 250T tank/bkp I then enabled dedup and compression and exported it to Windows Server 2008 as iSCSI via COMSTAR. There it was formatted with a 64K cluster size which is the NTFS default

Re: [zfs-discuss] Use of blocksize (-b) during zfs zvol create, poor performance

2010-06-29 Thread Josh Simon
Have you tried creating tank/bkp without the -s option. I believe I read somewhere that the -s option can lead to poor performance on larger volumes (which doesn't make sense to me). Also are you using a zil/log device? Josh Simon On 06/29/2010 09:33 AM, Effrem Norwood wrote: Hi All, I