Re: [zfs-discuss] Sequentiality & direct access to a file

2006-05-26 Thread Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering
Scott Dickson writes: > How does (or does) ZFS maintain sequentiality of the blocks of a file. > If I mkfile on a clean UFS, I likely will get contiguous blocks for my > file, right? A customer I talked to recently has a desire to access you would get up to maxcontig worth of sequential b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sequentiality & direct access to a file

2006-05-24 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:01:18AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Scott, > > Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 9:42:06 PM, you wrote: > > SD> How does (or does) ZFS maintain sequentiality of the blocks of a file. > SD> If I mkfile on a clean UFS, I likely will get contiguous blocks for my > SD> fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sequentiality & direct access to a file

2006-05-24 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Scott, Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 9:42:06 PM, you wrote: SD> How does (or does) ZFS maintain sequentiality of the blocks of a file. SD> If I mkfile on a clean UFS, I likely will get contiguous blocks for my SD> file, right? A customer I talked to recently has a desire to access SD> large vo

[zfs-discuss] Sequentiality & direct access to a file

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Dickson
How does (or does) ZFS maintain sequentiality of the blocks of a file. If I mkfile on a clean UFS, I likely will get contiguous blocks for my file, right? A customer I talked to recently has a desire to access large volumes of sequential data. They were concerned about maintaining this file