Re: [zfs-discuss] Bad performance (Seagate drive related?)

2012-02-04 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Hey there, Few things: - Using /dev/zero is not necessarily a great test. I typically use /dev/urandom to create an initial block-o-stuff - something like a gig or so worth, in /tmp, then use dd to push that to my zpool. (/dev/zero will return dramatically different results depending on

[zfs-discuss] Bad performance (Seagate drive related?)

2012-01-31 Thread Mohammed Naser
Hi list! I have seen less-than-stellar ZFS performance on a setup of one main head connected to a JBOD (using SAS, but drives are SATA). There are 16 drives (8 mirrors) in this pool but I'm getting 180ish MB sequential writes (using dd, I know it's not precise, but those numbers should be