> I've seen this question asked in a number of forums but I haven't > seen an answer. (May just have not looked hard enough) > > Copy-on-write means that most writes are sequential, which is good > for write performance, but won't it mean that random writes to a file > will put bits of the file all over the place? > > How does this affect sequential read performance? Does ZFS' read- > ahead mean that this isn't the problem it could be?
That was discussed to some extent in this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=14997 -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
