On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Nils Goroll wrote:
> My understanding is that the resilver speed is tied to fact that the currenct
> resilver implementation follows the ZFS on disk structures, which needs
> random-like I/O operations while a traditional RAID rebuild issues sequential
> I/O only. Simply put, the former is very slow while the latter is very fast 
> with
> respect to the amounts of data having to be touched.

If this is indeed an issue, then the pool itself is severely 
fragmented and will be slow in normal use.  This could happen if the 
pool is allowed to become overly full.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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