Re: [zfs-discuss] cow performance penatly

2007-04-27 Thread Roch - PAE
Chad Mynhier writes: On 4/27/07, Erblichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ming Zhang wrote: Hi All I wonder if any one have idea about the performance loss caused by COW in ZFS? If you have to read old data out before write it to some other place, it involve disk seek.

Re: [zfs-discuss] cow performance penatly

2007-04-27 Thread Ming Zhang
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 11:01 +0200, Roch - PAE wrote: Chad Mynhier writes: On 4/27/07, Erblichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ming Zhang wrote: Hi All I wonder if any one have idea about the performance loss caused by COW in ZFS? If you have to read old data out

Re: [zfs-discuss] cow performance penatly

2007-04-26 Thread Erblichs
Ming, Lets take a pro example with a minimal performance tradeoff. All FSs that modify a disk block, IMO, do a full disk block read before anything. If doing a extended write and moving to a larger block size with COW you give yourself the