Hi Bob, ZFS without COMSTAR will outperform most HW arrays depending on your workload.
-J On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > COMSTAR seems quite promising and useful. Is there any benchmark data > yet to compare COMSTAR + ZFS to a normal hardware-based RAID array? > For example, test performance with fiber channel direct to a RAID > array, and then (using same array hardware for storage) with COMSTAR + > ZFS? > > It is useful to know if COMSTAR + ZFS boosts performance due to ZFS > RAID smarts, much more powerful CPU, and massive caching in RAM, or if > going through Solaris kernel and ZFS adds latency which hurts > performance. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
