On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, prasad wrote:
We create iso images of our product in the
following way (high-level):
# mkfile 3g /isoimages/myiso
# lofiadm -a /isoimages/myiso
/dev/lofi/1
# newfs /dev/rlofi/1
# mount /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
# cd /mnt; zcat /product/myproduct.tar.Z | tar xf -
We are running Solaris 10 11/06 on a Sun V240 with 2
CPUS and 8 GB of memory. This V240 is attached to a
3510 FC that has 12 x 300 GB disks. The 3510 is
configured as HW RAID 5 with 10 disks and 2 spares
and it's exported to the V240 as a single LUN.
We create iso images of our product in
That's probably bug 6382683 lofi is confused about
sync/async I/O,
and AFAIK it's fixed in current opensolaris
releases.
See the thread with subject bad lofi performance
with zfs file backend /
bad mmap write performance from january / february
2006:
According to Bug Database bug 6382683 is in 1-Dispatched state, what does
that mean?
Roughly speaking, the bug has been entered into the database, but no developer
has been assigned to it. (State 3 indicates that a developer or team has agreed
that it's a bug; it sounds likely that this bug
