> You really should give your message a subject that indicates your
> question/problem. It is not unusual for people to ignore messages
> with no subject, unless it is a slow day.

That's what I get for copy/pasting from a forum posting :-/

> What else is the system doing when you are doing the test? System
> load can have a drastic affect on drive access times. Also, don't
> expect to get anywhere close to the raw speed when accessing more
> then one drive at the same time.

It's completely idle.  From native Linux, I get over 100MB/s on all of
them simultaneously (8 dd commands running at the same time, combined
throughput of over 800MB/s in vmstat and from the dd timings).  I
can't do that anymore because that would ruin the fs I have on them,
but my zfs performance speeds using zfs-fuse are a lot better than my
zfs performance running solaris under virtualbox.

> I cold be wrong, but I believe that vbox is still using the host OS
> to access the drive. You also have more overhead when accessing the
> drives.

Yeah, it looks like vbox is pretty much all userspace, but I think
that zfs-fuse is as well.  Are there any performance tweaks for vbox's
IO?  Like I said, SATA wasn't working for me, and SCSI was a bit
flaky, but maybe these are known issues and some dev has some code
(s)he's like me to test out?  I'm open to any suggestions.

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