Hello Richard, Thursday, August 31, 2006, 8:17:41 AM, you wrote:
RLH> Are both of you doing a umount/mount (or export/import, I guess) of the RLH> source filesystem before both first and second test? Otherwise, there might RLH> still be a fair bit of cached data left over from the first test, which would RLH> give the 2nd an unfair advantage. I'm fairly sure unmounting a filesystem RLH> invalidates all cached pages associated with files on that filesystem, as well RLH> as any cached [iv]node entries, all of which in needed to ensure both tests RLH> are starting from the most similar situation possible. Ideally, all this would RLH> even be done in single-user mode, so that nothing else could interfere. IIRC unmounting ZFS file system won't flush its caches - you've got to export entire pool. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
