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

2006-11-22 Thread Cameron Bahar
Yes, I've tried NFS and CIFS. I wouldn't call this a problem though. This is the way it was designed to work to prevent loss of client data. If you want faster performance put a battery-backed RAID card in your system and turn on write-back caching on the card so that the RAM in the RAID controlle

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

2006-10-09 Thread Cameron Bahar
This is correct based on our experience with ZFS. When using NFS v3, you have COMMIT's that come down the wire to the ZFS/NFS server which forces a sync or flush to disk. To get around this issue without compromizing data integrity you can effectively get some NVRAM by adding a battery-backed ha