Sorry, I just cannot tell how is this name related to Sun, IMHO. In my days and enterprise environments, lots of CoWs are stored in relational databases. I dunno where the hell you come from.
best, z ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Shirley" <david.shir...@nec.com.au> To: <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:29 PM Subject: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and file fragmentation > Hi Guys, > > We are in the process of using snapshots and zfs send/recv to copy > terrabytes of database datafiles. > > Due to CoW not being very friendly to databases we have a LOT of > fragmentation on the datafiles. > > This really slows down zfs send. > > Is it possible (or already done) to have zfs send/recv able to do a > blockwise send/recv of a zpool/zfs dataset so that we can harness the > speed of sequential I/O. > > This would also solve the uncompress/recompress nature of zfs send/recv. > > It's probably easier said than done, however I hope it gets looked at :) > > Cheers > David > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > 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
