@Stephan 

```
rsync --archive --human-readable --info=progress2 source dst
```

@toomas USB3

@Peter could be the compression, I will check next time.



On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM Stephan Althaus via oi-dev 
<[email protected]> wrote:
 > 
 > On 11/4/25 05:03, Atiq Rahman wrote:
 > Hi,
 > When I am copying over files to the zfs dataset on an external HDD, the 
 > speed is one third of what it is over exFAT. This is zfs to zfs copy which 
 > is basically way slower than zfs to exFAT.
 > 
 > This was my zpool create command on the external drive,
 > 
 > ```
 > zpool create -o ashift=12 -O compression=lz4 -o autotrim=off -O 
 > mountpoint=none -O atime=off -O dnodesize=auto hyperspace /dev/dsk/c4t0d0
 > ```
 > 
 > And, this is how the dataset was created:
 > 
 > ```
 > zfs create -o recordsize=1M -o normalization=formD -O mountpoint=/media 
 > hyperspace/media
 > ```
 > 
 > I know zfs has journaling overhead. But, is it possible to set certain zfs 
 > properties to improve the transfer speed?
 > 
 > Hello Atiq!
 > 
 > How do you copy, please show the commands (?)
 > 
 > You may want to investigate the read speed with something like zfs send ... 
 > > /dev/null
 > 
 > If you do a zfs send -> receive, a buffer like "mbuffer" may help, over 
 > network pathes in combination with a compression pbzip2, pigz ...
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Regards,
 >  > Stephan
 > 
 > 
 > Hello Atiq!
 > 
 > How do you copy, please show the commands (?)
 > 
 > You may want to investigate the read speed with something like zfs send ... 
 > > /dev/null
 > 
 > If you do a zfs send -> receive, a buffer like "mbuffer" may help, over 
 > network pathes in combination with a compression pbzip2, pigz ...
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > Stephan
 > 
 > If its external HDD, which interface? usb3?
 > 
 > rgds,
 > toomas > 
 > 
 > 
 > On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM Peter Tribble <[email protected]> 
 > wrote:
 >  > Journaling normally speeds things up.
 > But generally I would start with using the defaults (except compression), 
 > other settings generally
 > only come into play in specialist cases.
 >  
 > 
 > 
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