Cole Tuininga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:14 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote:
>> On 06/21/2007 10:02 AM, Cole Tuininga wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:52 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
>> >
>> >> So one has to ask. What's the point? :-)
>> > ZFS? :)
>> http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/
>
> Right - but because FUSE lives in userland, my understanding is that the
> performance is somewhere around 50% of what you'd see on Solaris. On
> top of which (at least, from my meager understanding of it) you're still
> going to have to go through the Linux's VFS layer which is going to
> reduce the usefulness of ZFS significantly wrt data integrity.
Actually, the FUSE overhead is extremely low. I've actually
measured it using tools like bonnie++ using a home-made FUSE
filesystem that effectively mirrors the underlying filesystem
(i.e., just a passthrough), and the overhead was only like 5%
compared to direct EXT2/3 access.
-derek
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