[zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread Patrick
Hi, I've just started using ZFS + NFS, and i was wondering if there is anything i can do to optimise it for being used as a mailstore ? ( small files, lots of them, with lots of directory's and high concurrent access ) So any ideas guys? P ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread grant beattie
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Patrick wrote: Hi, I've just started using ZFS + NFS, and i was wondering if there is anything i can do to optimise it for being used as a mailstore ? ( small files, lots of them, with lots of directory's and high concurrent access ) So any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread Darren Reed
grant beattie wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Patrick wrote: Hi, I've just started using ZFS + NFS, and i was wondering if there is anything i can do to optimise it for being used as a mailstore ? ( small files, lots of them, with lots of directory's and high concurrent

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread Patrick
Hi, sounds like your workload is very similar to mine. is all public access via NFS? Well it's not 'public directly', courier-imap/pop3/postfix/etc... but the maildirs are accessed directly by some programs for certain things. for small file workloads, setting recordsize to a value lower

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread grant beattie
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:16:40AM +0200, Patrick wrote: sounds like your workload is very similar to mine. is all public access via NFS? Well it's not 'public directly', courier-imap/pop3/postfix/etc... but the maildirs are accessed directly by some programs for certain things. yes,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + NFS perfromance ?

2006-06-27 Thread grant beattie
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:07:47PM +0200, Roch wrote: for small file workloads, setting recordsize to a value lower than the default (128k) may prove useful. When changing things like recordsize, can i do it on the fly on a volume ? ( and then if i can what happens to the data