Matty writes: > Are there any plans to support record sizes larger than 128k? We use > ZFS file systems for disk staging on our backup servers (compression > is a nice feature here), and we typically configure the disk staging > process to read and write large blocks (typically 1MB or so). This > reduces the number of I/Os that take place to our storage arrays, and > our testing has shown that we can push considerably more I/O with 1MB+ > block sizes. >
So other FS and raw devices clearly benefit from larger blocksize but the way ZFS schedule such I/Os, I don't expect anymore more throughput from bigger blocks. Maybe you're hitting something else that limits throughput ? -r > Thanks for any insight, > - Ryan > -- > UNIX Administrator > http://prefetch.net > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
