On 29/04/2011, at 10:38, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> The OSX box is connected via an Airport Express (11n). > > Can you connect something to it via Ethernet and attempt an FTP transfer > (both PUT (store on server) and GET (retrieve from server)) from a > client on the wired network? Make sure whatever you're PUT'ing and > GET'ing are using the ZFS filesystem. Don't forget "binary" mode too.
I tried dd'ing /dev/zero over SMB and got 40MB/sec (although I'm not using AIO yet..) FTP'ing a 300 MB file averages 60-70MB/sec (the speed of my laptop HD) ttcp between the hosts hits wire speed (100MB/sec) >> OK. I don't think TM can use CIFS, I will try ISCSI as someone else >> suggested, perhaps it will help. > > Be aware there are all sorts of caveats/complexities with iSCSI on > FreeBSD. There are past threads on -stable and -fs talking about them > in great detail. I personally wouldn't go this route. > > Why can't OS X use CIFS? It has the ability to mount a SMB filesystem, > right? Is there some reason you can't mount that, then tell TM to write > its backups to /mountedcifs? It looks like I had a dodgy disk which was being tickled by the time machine backup (eg dodgy sector where the backup was located) so I have been chasing a ghost :) However, thanks to everyone for your helpful suggestions! I still haven't tried iSCSI, given I can't do a bare metal restore from it it doesn't seem worth it (also I don't have the time..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
