This is the time it took to move the file: The machine is a Intel P4 - 512MB RAM.
bash-3.00# time mv ../share/pav.tar . real 1m26.334s user 0m0.003s sys 0m7.397s bash-3.00# ls -l pav.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 516628480 Oct 29 19:30 pav.tar A similar move on my Mac OS X took this much time: pavan-mettus-computer:~/public pavan$ time mv pav.tar.gz ./Burn\ Folder.fpbf/ real 0m0.006s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.004s pavan-mettus-computer:~/public/Burn Folder.fpbf pavan$ ls -l pav.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 pavan pavan 347758518 Oct 29 19:09 pav.tar.gz NOTE: The file size here is 347 MB where as the previous one was 516MB. But still the time taken is huge when compared. Its an X86 machine running Nevada build 51. More info about the disk and pool: bash-3.00# zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT mypool 29.2G 789M 28.5G 2% ONLINE - bash-3.00# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT mypool 789M 28.0G 24.5K /mypool mypool/nas 789M 28.0G 78.8M /export/home mypool/nas/pavan 710M 28.0G 710M /export/home/pavan mypool/nas/rajeev 24.5K 28.0G 24.5K /export/home/rajeev mypool/nas/share 24.5K 28.0G 24.5K /export/home/share It took lots of time when I moved the file from /export/home/pavan/ to /export/home/share directory. I was not doing any other operation other than the move command. There are no files in that directories other than this one. It has a 512MB Physical memory. The Mac machine has 1Gig RAM. No snapshots are taken. iostat and vmstat info: bash-3.00# iostat -x extended device statistics device r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b cmdk0 3.1 3.0 237.9 132.8 0.6 0.1 112.6 2 3 fd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3152.2 0 0 sd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 sd1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 bash-3.00# vmstat kthr memory page disk faults cpu r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd f0 s0 s1 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 0 2083196 111668 5 25 13 3 13 0 44 6 0 -1 -0 296 276 231 1 2 97 -Pavan This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss