On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Ross Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to come back and face the shame; this was a total newbie mistake by > myself. > > I followed the ZFS shortcuts for noobs guide off bigadmin; > http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmin/ZFS+Shortcuts+for+Noobs > > What that had me doing was creating a UFS filesystem on top of a ZFS volume, > so I was using only 2 layers of ZFS. > > I just re-did this against end-to-end ZFS, and the results are pretty > freaking impressive; ZFS is handily outrunning the hardware RAID. Bonnie++ > is achieving 257 mb/sec write, and 312 mb/sec read. > > My apologies for wasting folks time; this is my first experience with a > solaris of recent vintage.
No apology necessary and I'm glad you figured it out - I was just reading this thread and thinking "I'm missing something here - this can't be right". If you have the budget to run a few more "experiments", try this SuperMicro card: http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/faq that others have had success with. Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
