Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] NCQ performance

2007-05-30 Thread Robert B. Wood
On May 29, 2007, at 2:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When sequential I/O is done to the disk directly there is no performance degradation at all. All filesystems impose some overhead compared to the rate of raw disk I/O. It's going to be hard to store data on a disk unless some kind of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] NCQ performance

2007-05-29 Thread Lida Horn
Roch Bourbonnais wrote: Le 29 mai 07 à 22:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : When sequential I/O is done to the disk directly there is no performance degradation at all. All filesystems impose some overhead compared to the rate of raw disk I/O. It's going to be hard to store data on a disk un

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] NCQ performance

2007-05-29 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 29 mai 07 à 22:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : When sequential I/O is done to the disk directly there is no performance degradation at all. All filesystems impose some overhead compared to the rate of raw disk I/O. It's going to be hard to store data on a disk unless some kind of fil

[zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] NCQ performance

2007-05-29 Thread eric kustarz
On May 29, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Lida Horn wrote: Point one, the comments that Eric made do not give the complete picture. All the tests that Eric's referring to were done through ZFS filesystem. When sequential I/O is done to the disk directly there is no performance degradation at all. Do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] NCQ performance

2007-05-29 Thread johansen-osdev
> When sequential I/O is done to the disk directly there is no performance > degradation at all. All filesystems impose some overhead compared to the rate of raw disk I/O. It's going to be hard to store data on a disk unless some kind of filesystem is used. All the tests that Eric and I have p

[zfs-discuss] Re: [storage-discuss] NCQ performance

2007-05-29 Thread Lida Horn
Point one, the comments that Eric made do not give the complete picture. All the tests that Eric's referring to were done through ZFS filesystem. When sequential I/O is done to the disk directly there is no performance degradation at all. Second point, it does not take any additional time in ldi