Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over NFS extra slow?

2007-01-02 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Brad, I believe benr experienced the same/similar issue here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=77347 If it is the same, I believe its a known ZFS/NFS interaction bug, and has to do with small file creation. Best Regards, Jason On 1/2/07, Brad Plecs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over NFS extra slow?

2007-01-02 Thread Ben Rockwood
Brad Plecs wrote: I had a user report extreme slowness on a ZFS filesystem mounted over NFS over the weekend. After some extensive testing, the extreme slowness appears to only occur when a ZFS filesystem is mounted over NFS. One example is doing a 'gtar xzvf php-5.2.0.tar.gz'... over NFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS over NFS extra slow?

2007-01-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
Another thing to keep an eye out for is disk caching. With ZFS, whenever the NFS server tells us to make sure something is on disk, we actually make sure it's on disk by asking the drive to flush dirty data in its write cache out to the media. Needless to say, this takes a while. With