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Date:      Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:26:28 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS slow write performance
Message-ID:  <h6ea64$fk5$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E2345AC-55AD-4D23-B76C-B0C37CB62A51@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
References:  <3E2345AC-55AD-4D23-B76C-B0C37CB62A51@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>

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Paul Mather wrote:

> Currently, I am just trying to rsync data locally from a read-only 
> UFS2-mounted USB-attached hard drive, and am getting (IMHO) poor write 
> speeds of only about 5 MiB/sec.  I can't figure out why this is so 
> relatively low.

> Any help or advice is appreciated.

There could be many reasons, but you will have to dig more to find them. 
For example, it might be just that USB has a greater latency and it 
interferes with some assumptions, but it's only a guess.

Try 8.0-BETA2, it has both new ZFS and new USB code.




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