On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
> I think that the problem is likely that this Western Digital drive is one of
> the new ones using 4K sectors internally. Almost everyone obtains terrible
> write performance from zfs using these drives. I suggest getting rid of it
> and r
On Mon, 31 May 2010, Matt Connolly wrote:
Watching `zpool iostat -v 2` I could see that quite often drive 1
would write a big chunk of data and then wait for ages for drive 2
to write the same data to disc.
Could it be that there is a separate cache for the mirror that was
stalling waiting o
I have an odd setup at present, because I'm testing while still building my
machine.
It's an Intel Atom D510 mobo running snv_134 2GB RAM with 2 SATA drives (AHCI):
1: Samsung 250GB old laptop drive
2: WD Green 1.5TB drive (idle3 turned off)
Ultimately, it will be a time machine backup for my Ma
