On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 08:04 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > On Aug 11, 2009, at 7:39 AM, Ed Spencer wrote: > > I suspect that if we 'rsync' one of these filesystems to a second > > server/pool that we would also see a performance increase equal to > > what > > we see on the development server. (I don't know how zfs send a receive > > work so I don't know if it would address this "Filesystem Entropy" or > > specifically reorganize the files and directories). However, when we > > created a testfs filesystem in the zfs pool on the production server, > > and copied data to it, we saw the same performance as the other > > filesystems, in the same pool. > > Directory walkers, like NetBackup or rsync, will not scale well as > the number of files increases. It doesn't matter what file system you > use, the scalability will look more-or-less similar. For millions of > files, > ZFS send/receive works much better. More details are in my paper.
Is there link to this paper available? -- Louis-Frédéric Feuillette <jeb...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
