> I've got a couple of identical old sparc boxes running nv90 - one
> on ufs, the other zfs. Everything else is the same. (SunBlade
> 150 with 1G of RAM, if you want specifics.)
>
> The zfs root box is significantly slower all around. Not only is
> initial I/O slower, but it seems much less able to cache data.

Exactly the same here, though with different hardware (Netra T1 200
with 1 GB RAM and 2x 36 GB SCSI).  If you put the UFS on top of
an SVM mirror the difference is less noticeable but still there.
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