replic...@gmail.com said: > One other question, how can I ensure that the controller's cache is really > being used? (arcconf doesn't seem to show much). Since ZFS would flush the > data as soon as it can, I am curious to see if the caching is making a > difference or not.
Share out a dataset on the pool over NFS to a remote client. On the client, unpack a tar archive onto the NFS dataset, timing how long it takes. Do this once with the cache set to "write-through" (which basically disables the write cache), and again with it set to "write-back". Regards, Marion _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
