Re: [zfs-discuss] Z-Raid performance with Random reads/writes

2007-06-19 Thread michael T sedwick
OK... Is all this 3x; 6x potential performance boost still going to hold true in a Single Controller scenario? Hardware is x4100's (Solaris 10) w/ 6-disk raidz on external 3320's? I seem to remember /(wait... checking Notes...) / correct... the ZFS filesystem is < 50% capacity. This info coul

[zfs-discuss] Z-Raid performance with Random reads/writes

2007-06-19 Thread michael T sedwick
Given a 1.6TB ZFS Z-Raid consisting 6 disks: And a system that does an extreme amount of small /(<20K) /random reads /(more than twice as many reads as writes) / 1) What performance gains, if any does Z-Raid offer over other RAID or Large filesystem configurations? 2) What is any hindrance i