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
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