Mika Borner writes:

 > >given that zfs always does copy-on-write for any updates, it's not
 > clear
 > >why this would necessarily degrade performance..
 > 
 > Writing should be no problem, as it is serialized... but when both
 > database instances are reading a lot of different blocks at the same
 > time, the spindles might "heat up".
 > 
 > >If you want a full copy you can use zfs send/zfs receive -- either
 > >within the same pool or between two different pools.
 > 
 > Ok. But then again, it might be necessary to throttle zfs send/receive
 > replication between pools. Otherwise the replication process might be
 > influencing the production environment performance too much. Or is there
 > already some kind of prioritization, that I have overlooked?
 > 
 > //Mika
 > 
 > # mv Disclaimer.txt /dev/null
 > 
 > 

I think this is heading toward 'quotas and reservation' of IOPS.
Sounds like something that would be very useful. I don't
know if this is planned. 

-r


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