[zfs-discuss] ZFS throttling - how does it work?

2006-06-22 Thread Andrzej Butkiewicz
Hi zfs-discuss, I have some questions about throttling on ZFS 1) I know that throttling is activating while one sync is waiting for another. (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=the_dynamics_of_zfs) Is it possible to throttle only selected processes (e.g. nfsd) ? 2) How can I obtain som

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: What does ZFS modify a part of filesystem block?

2006-06-07 Thread Andrzej Butkiewicz
I'm asking only for curiosity. I would like to know more about ZFS internals espacially comparing Raid-Z to Raid-5 and improving applications to cooperation with them. It isn't complaining on performance :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[zfs-discuss] Re: What does ZFS modify a part of filesystem block?

2006-06-07 Thread Andrzej Butkiewicz
Thanks Mark! I see that writing part of filesystem block reduces performance. Especially in Raid-Z because we have to read all spread on every disk blocks. Does ZFS have any kind of blocks aggregation? I suppose that could be work on this way: zfs receive a command to write part of the block,

[zfs-discuss] What does ZFS modify a part of filesystem block?

2006-06-01 Thread Andrzej Butkiewicz
I have some questions about modify filesystem block. When we want to modify existing block ZFS makes new one and destroy old. OK - it is copy-on-write mechanism. But if we want to modify only a part of the block what does it work? What does ZFS do with rest of the block? Whether size of it is re