On 30/08/06, Matthew Ahrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes. The architectural benefits of 'zfs send' over rsync only apply to sending incremental changes. When sending a full backup, both schemes have to traverse all the metadata and send all the data, so the *should* be about the same speed.
Cool! I'll retry it then.
However, as I mentioned, there's still some low-hanging performance issues with 'zfs send', although I'm surprised that it was 5x slower than rsync! I'd like to look into that issue some more... What type of files were you sending? Eg. approximately what size files, how many files, how many files/directory?
It was a copy of /usr/ports from freebsd, so around 500mb of small textfiles. Bear in mind I'm talking from memory, and it was just a quick test. I'll retry and let you know if I see a similar problem - if you don't hear anything, I couldn't replicate it. Thanks! -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
