Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual harddrive and ZFS performance

2009-08-21 Thread David Magda
On Fri, August 21, 2009 11:18, David Magda wrote: > The current default value ignores flush requests from guest OSes, but this > can't tweaked via a parameter (11.1.3 Responding to guest IDE flush > requests): s/can't/can be/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual harddrive and ZFS performance

2009-08-21 Thread David Magda
On Fri, August 21, 2009 10:32, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Various people have stated here that VirtualBox intentionally does not > pass through cache flush requests. The current default value ignores flush requests from guest OSes, but this can't tweaked via a parameter (11.1.3 Responding to guest

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual harddrive and ZFS performance

2009-08-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Johan Eliasson wrote: So a full NTFS defrag should result in just a long sequential ZFS write? That would depend on how the defrag algorithm works, how often NTFS issues a synchronous write request (cache flush), how much memory is installed on your Solaris system, and h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual harddrive and ZFS performance

2009-08-20 Thread Johan Eliasson
So a full NTFS defrag should result in just a long sequential ZFS write? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual harddrive and ZFS performance

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Johan Eliasson wrote: Thinking about running a WinXP instance in VirtualBox on OpenSolaris, using a 20 GB harddisk-file. However, I am worried about fragmentation... with the constant reading/writing that WinXP does... will not the fragmentation of the hardrive-file in ZFS

[zfs-discuss] Virtual harddrive and ZFS performance

2009-08-20 Thread Johan Eliasson
Hi folks! Thinking about running a WinXP instance in VirtualBox on OpenSolaris, using a 20 GB harddisk-file. However, I am worried about fragmentation... with the constant reading/writing that WinXP does... will not the fragmentation of the hardrive-file in ZFS be humongus?? Best regards, gigan