[zfs-discuss] ZFS File system related

2007-12-26 Thread sudarshan sridhar
Hi, How zfs does the fiile/directory traversel by reading each dnode DIRECTORY entry? How the creation/deletion of a file works. Could anybody please explain related information along with datastructures. More internal details would be a great help ZFS laout pdf explain

[zfs-discuss] rename(2) (mv(1)) between ZFS filesystems in the same zpool

2007-12-26 Thread Darren Reed
Having just done a largish mv from one ZFS filesystem to another ZFS filesystem in the same zpool, I was somewhat surprised at how long it took - I was expecting it to be near instant like it would be within the same filesystem. Are there optimisations possible here? Surely it should be possible

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS very slow under xVM

2007-12-26 Thread Menno Lageman
James Dickens wrote: >>> kugutsum >>> >>> I tried with just 4Gb in the system, and the same >> issue. I'll try >>> 2Gb tomorrow and see if any better.(ps, how did >> you determine >>> that was the problem in your case) >> >> sorry, I wasn't monitoring this list for a while. My >> machine