On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Patrick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just started using ZFS + NFS, and i was wondering if there is
> anything i can do to optimise it for being used as a mailstore ? (
> small files, lots of them, with lots of directory's and high
> concurrent access )
>
> So any ideas guys?
check out this thread, which may answer some of your questions:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=40617
sounds like your workload is very similar to mine. is all public
access via NFS?
also, check out this blog entry from Roch:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=the_dynamics_of_zfs
for small file workloads, setting recordsize to a value lower than the
default (128k) may prove useful.
grant.
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