Re: [zfs-discuss] [nfs-discuss] NFS, ZFS & ESX

2009-07-07 Thread Calum Mackay
interesting; but presumably the ZIL/fsflush is not the reason for the associated poor *read* performance? where does latencytop point the finger in that case? cheers, calum. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensola

Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] poor NFS/ZFS performance

2006-11-24 Thread Calum Mackay
I should perhaps note that my last email on delegation describes the optimisations possible under the NFSv4 protocol, as per RFC, all of which are not necessarily implemented in our own Solaris client. In particular, I think that fsync and committed writes do still go through to the server, so

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor NFS/ZFS performance

2006-11-23 Thread Calum Mackay
Calum Mackay wrote: We have had file delegation on by default in NFSv4 since Solaris 10 FCS, putback in July 2004. The delegation of a file gives the client certain guarantees about how that file may be accessed by other clients (regardless of NFS version) or processes local to the NFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor NFS/ZFS performance

2006-11-23 Thread Calum Mackay
We have had file delegation on by default in NFSv4 since Solaris 10 FCS, putback in July 2004. We're currently working on also providing directory delegations - client caching of directory contents - as part of the upcoming NFSv4.1. cheers, calum. Darren J Moffat wrote: Roch - PAE wrote: