However, even with sequential writes, a large I/O size makes a huge difference in throughput. Ask the QFS folks about data capture applications. ;-)
(This is less true with ATA disks that tend to have less buffering and much less sophisticated architectures. I'm not aware of any dual-processor ATA drives, for instance.) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss