Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 10/18/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> zfs send | ssh -C | zfs recv > > I was going to suggest this, but I think (I could be wrong...) that > ssh would then use zlib for compression and that ssh is still a > single-threaded process. This has two effects: > > 1) gzip compression instead of compress - may or may not be right for > the application > 2) encryption + compression happens in same thread. While this may be > fine for systems that can do both at wire or file system speed, it is > not ideal if transfer rates are already constrained by CPU speed. > > The Niagara 2 CPU likely changes the importance of 2 a bit.
Unfortunately it doesn't yet because ssh can't yet use the N2 crypto - because it uses OpenSSL's libcrypto without using the ENGINE API. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
