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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:15:17 +0400
From:      Alexey Tarasov <me@lexasoft.ru>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS raidz and 4k sector disks
Message-ID:  <96786FB1-DD39-4E22-B942-B87C15E164B0@lexasoft.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4BBEE533.2050507@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <201003291616.27838.Pascal.Stumpf@cubes.de>	<9D752CC7-5CCA-454D-8BEC-F3D5E6F8445C@lexasoft.ru>	<hoqgc8$ee9$1@dough.gmane.org> <46D5776E-39F0-48A7-B1C0-B844BF5147C5@lexasoft.ru> <4BBEE533.2050507@icyb.net.ua>

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Hello.

I see considerably increased performance when creating over gnop -S 4096 =
virtual disk. Even when I create zpool over raw disks the performance is =
very bad and concurent writes stalls. When using gnop, zfs works VERY =
fast!

Btw, here is another discussion, may be there is a bug in a mav@ commit, =
because he has added support for >512 sector size:
=
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-April/016495.html

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=B5! =3D)

On 09.04.2010, at 12:28, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 08/04/2010 16:55 Alexey Tarasov said the following:
>> Hello.
>>=20
>> I've tried all methods and realized that unfortunately the only =
working
>> method is gnop. So you can't use these disks for ZFS at all now.
>=20
> Why?  And what are you actually trying to do?
> My understanding was that even with 512-byte sectors ZFS still aligns =
its
> on-disk data with > 4K alignment.
> Do you see otherwise?  What problem do you have?
>=20
> --=20
> Andriy Gapon

--
Alexey Tarasov

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