On Jul 19, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Richard Jahnel wrote: >> Any idea why? Does the zfs send or zfs receive bomb out part way through? > > I have no idea why mbuffer fails. Changing the -s from 128 to 1536 made it > take longer to occur and slowed it down bu about 20% but didn't resolve the > issue. It just ment I might get as far as 2.5gb before mbuffer bombed with > broken pipe. Trying -r and -R with various values had no effect.
I've used mbuffer to transfer hundreds of TB without a problem in mbuffer itself. You will get disconnected if the send or receive prematurely ends, though. >> Might be worth trying it over rsh if security isn't an issue, and then >> you lose the encryption overhead. Trouble is that then you've got almost >> no buffering, which can do bad things to the performance, which is why >> mbuffer would be ideal if it worked for you. > > I seem to remember reading that rsh was remapped to ssh in Solaris. > > I heard of some folks using netcat. > I haven't figured out where to get netcat nor the syntax for using it yet. On Nexenta systems, netcat (and nc) are in /usr/bin and the man pages are in the default MANPATH. -- richard -- Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com +1-760-896-4422 Enterprise class storage for everyone www.nexenta.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
