Re: [zfs-discuss] Fwd: Re: zvol space consumption vs ashift, metadata packing

2011-10-10 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:19:20AM +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > > Hello, Daniel, > > Apparently your data is represented by rather small files (thus > many small data blocks) It's a zvol, default 8k block size, so yes. > , so proportion of metadata is relatively > high, and your<4k blocks are now u

[zfs-discuss] Fwd: Re: zvol space consumption vs ashift, metadata packing

2011-10-04 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello, Daniel, Apparently your data is represented by rather small files (thus many small data blocks), so proportion of metadata is relatively high, and your<4k blocks are now using at least 4k disk space. For data with small blocks (a 4k volume on an ashift=12 pool) I saw metadata use up most