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--On Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:28 PM +0000 Jonathan Belson 
<jon@witchspace.com> wrote:

> Hiya
>
> After reading some earlier threads about zfs performance, I decided to
> test my own server.  I found the results rather surprising...
>

You really need to test with at least 4GB of data, else you're just testing 
caching speeds on writing.  Use a test suite like bonnie++ and you'll see 
just how poor the ZFS performance is, especially with multiple readers on 
the same file, atleast in 8.0.