>I have been attempting to set up a test server using OS 200811 (rc2) > >The system is a 4 Gbyte Dell Optiplex 755, which has dual core 2 duo cpus. >I created four 10 Gbyte files and two 20Gbyte files under /home using dd >from /dev/zero. I then created two zpools; the first I created a stripe of >two of the 10Gbyte files and then mirrored it with the remaining two files, >the second pool I simply created a mirror of two 20 Gbyte files.
If you use this trick on UFS, the performance will not be stellar; however, you have created nearly continguous files. But in ZFS, the data of the two files will be randomly located; everytime you write to the files, the data will move around. This is not at all what ZFS expects. You should try again using a "zvol" by using zfs create -V. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
