On 11/05/2006, at 9:04 AM, Darren Dunham wrote:
I've seen this question asked in a number of forums but I haven't
seen an answer. (May just have not looked hard enough)
Copy-on-write means that most writes are sequential, which is good
for write performance, but won't it mean that random writes to a file
will put bits of the file all over the place?
How does this affect sequential read performance? Does ZFS' read-
ahead mean that this isn't the problem it could be?
That was discussed to some extent in this thread:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=14997
Thanks, exactly what I was after.
Boyd
Melbourne, Australia
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