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Date:      Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:16:42 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To:        Dennis Glatting <freebsd@penx.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS across controllers
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.01.1110281013500.16364@freddy.simplesystems.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110280744440.18694@Elmer.dco.penx.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110280744440.18694@Elmer.dco.penx.com>

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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Dennis Glatting wrote:

> This seems like a stupid question but is there any significant performance 
> problems with a ZFS RAIDz volume served across multiple controllers?

No.  Available IOPS will be dominated/limited by whichever controller 
and disks are slowest to respond.

> I have seen two cases that confuse me. First, performance degrades over time. 
> I have read there was previously a prefetch bug but it has been fixed. I also 
> recently turned off prefetching to test (no opinion yet).

In what way is performance degrading?  What means are you using to 
evaluate performance?

Bob
-- 
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/



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