Re: [perf-discuss] Re: NFS Performance and Tar

2006-10-07 Thread Roch
William D. Hathaway writes: > Hi Ben, > I second the notion to ask in zfs-discuss, but I did see a thread on the > Yahoo Solaris x86 group that seemed similar to your question. I think the > main work-around was echo "zil_disable/W 1" | mdb -kw > And to do this prior to mounting a fs.

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: NFS Performance and Tar

2006-10-02 Thread johansen-osdev
Disabling the ZIL will cause synchronous writes to occur asynchronously. If any applications depend upon the use of synchronous writes for their correctness, they're likely to be adversely affected. There are a number of ZIL performance fixes that have been checked in recently, or that are in the

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: NFS Performance and Tar

2006-10-02 Thread johansen-osdev
You might consider cross-posting this question to zfs-discuss. I've been lead to believe that there are some known issues with ZFS/NFS performance. However, I don't know to what degree they would affect your configuration. I apologize for the relatively un-helpful response. -j On Sun, Oct 01,