On Apr 23, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Leon Koll wrote: > Hello, Roch > <...> >> Then SFS over ZFS is being investigated by others >> within >> Sun. I believe we have stuff in the pipe to make ZFS >> match >> or exceed UFS on small server level loads. So I >> think your >> complaint is being heard. > > You're the first one who said this and I am glad I'm being heard. > >> >> I personally find it always incredibly hard to do >> performance >> engineering around SFS. >> So my perspective is that improving the SFS numbers >> will more likely come from finding ZFS/NFS >> performance >> deficiencies on simpler benchmarks. >> > There is a new version of SPEC SFS in beta phase (w/NFS4 and CIFS > support), available to SPEC members only. I am very interested to > see the results of it on ZFS. Is there anybody from [i]"others > within Sun"[/i] who tested it ?
The upcoming version of SPEC SFS, while containing support and workload for CIFS, does NOT include support for NFSv4. I am also curious, Leon, does your regular workload mimic that which is measured by the SFS workload or are you just using it as a tool to determine variances in your configurations? Spencer
